“Oh! Are you going to kill us, Sam?” Dirk sneers as his free hand produces their pistol. “If either of you come closer, I’ll shoot. And this time, you WON’T get back on your feet!” Sam’s ex-boyfriend laughs, then suddenly he breaks into a fit of coughing, and spasms in pain. He screams.
“Dirk!?” Delilah exclaims.
Her brother convulses, and drops the pistol. His clothes rip and fall off him, as his body bulges. Dirk’s eyes turn black, and a red bruising around the bite mark around his neck swiftly spreads to cover the rest of him.
Delilah screams. “The bite...”
“...of those creatures. It must be infectious to humans!” you exclaim. You and Sam are rooted to the spot, spellbound by Dirk’s horrific transmutation.
“Aaaggghhh!” Bat like wings burst out of Dirk’s bowed back, and he shoots his now-bald head up, to expose a leering mouth lined with growing fangs. The nails on his hands lengthen into claws, and he rises upon his taloned feet, to stand as one of the Red Devils.
“...ssh! Come, my ssisster... Thiss world will be ourss for the taking!” he hisses. Dirk then springs upon Delilah – pinning her to the ground, then bites her neck. She screams again. Within seconds, Delilah’s clothes begin to break apart as her own transformation begins. The contagion is fast adapting to a human physiology. Too fast...
Dirk brushes his sister’s hair away from her scalp as it comes loose, then he rises to face you and Sam. “And now, join uss, Ssam! Be my mate, and we will create a new world for our kind. We sshall passs our gift to thosse who we choosse, and devour the resst!”
“No!!” Sam bellows. She drops her axe and takes off the medallion, to reveal her minotaur form – startling Dirk. “You cannot convert me. And you will never be a scourge to anyone, ever again!” Sam stomps the ground with her hooves, lowers her head, and gives a bullish roar before charging for Dirk. He panics and tries to take off with his new wings. But Sam is not to be denied her role as avenger. She leaps up quickly, grabs Dirk’s crimson-coloured legs, with her strong arms, and brings him down – then bares her horns and gores him in the throat. Dirk gives a wheezing cry of surprise, then breathes his last.
With a shriek, Delilah bursts free of the cocoon of her human clothing, and her leathery wings grow and fan out behind her. The newly-born demoness turns her jet black eyes first to Dirk’s body, then focuses upon the two minotaurs facing her.
“...ssh! My brother!!” she rasps. “You sshall pay for killing him, Ssam!” Her sinewy arms lash out, knocking you both to the ground. Delilah gathers her strength for the kill...
But although Sam is without her axe for a moment, she still has her reflexes. Her human reflexes. The mace spray is whipped out from her loincloth pocket and fired into the face of the Red Devil. As Delilah screams, clutching her stinging eyes, you retrieve your fallen axe. A precise and mighty swish of the blade later – and Delilah’s non-human head goes spinning into the chasm next to the ledge. The lean, crimson body of the demon flops before Sam, churning out dark blood. With a look of disgust, she kicks it into the depths of the cavern, to follow its head. “WE hate red!” Sam smirks at you. Then she falls upon her knees, exhausted.
“Sam...? Are you all right? I’m here!” You drop your axe and crouch besides her.
“I’m free of them, Miles. At long last...” Sam’s blue eyes begin to water. She rests her bovine head against your chest, as you hug and comfort each other at the end of a job well done...