Dark Exorcist 2 (Dark Exorcist Series) by Tim Miller Page B

Dietrich, she started on Dale. Using the membrane, she snapped his fingers one by one. He doubled over and she could hear him screaming. Skip turned around and ran over to Dale. Cody tried to run out of the room, but she had the membrane close in around Cody, pick him up and slam him into the wall. He grunted and screamed as she slammed him into the concrete wall repeatedly. She pulled him away and prepared to slam him one final time, when a gunshot went off. This was incredibly loud.
    It sent a ripple through the realm causing her to drop Cody and even shook her whole being. She looked where the shot came from and it was Skip, standing over her own body. He’d fired a single shot into her skull. Amanda looked at her motionless body. Getting a closer look, her eyes now stared lifelessly at the ceiling. She was dead. Even though she was in Purgatory, time still felt like it stood still. What would happen to her now? So far nothing to her current self. She was still in Purgatory, she just had no body to return to.
    Cody was walking back up and began kicking her dead body. He then undid his pants and knelt down between her legs. He was going to rape her dead body? What a sick asshole. Using the membrane, this time she reached out and twisted his head all the way around. Even in the realm she could hear his neck snapping as she slowly twisted his head until it was facing in the wrong direction. His lifeless body fell to the ground.
    Skip was standing there with his gun out. He began firing in random directions. One passed right through her, or would have, had she been real. She lunged at him and slid inside of his body. Unsure if she could actually possess him, she drifted around until she was able to take hold of his mind. He knew right away she was in there.
    “What the fuck are you doing?” He said.
    “I’m killing you.”
    “What are you? We just killed you! Get out of my head!”
    “You should have just left us alone. There’s enough death out there today. But you had to try and use it for your own desires. But that was a fatal mistake.” She said.
    “What are you going to do to me?”
    “You’ll know it when I do it,” she said as she sent her will out from his body back into the membrane of Purgatory. It grabbed hold of him and began to pull. First it was barely noticeable, but then he felt it and began to scream as it strengthened its grip, began pulling into different directions. His face became distorted as he tried to fight against it.
    “Stop it! You’re tearing me apart! Please stop!” He screamed but she ignored his screams as she continued to push against his body. After almost a minute it happened. Skip exploded. His body burst into hundreds of chunks of bone and flesh as blood sprayed throughout the locker room. Much of it showered onto Dietrich who sat there helplessly with his hands cuffed behind his back.
    Amanda looked around at the blood and the bodies. She had to laugh at the irony. Not too long ago, something else was possessing and controlling her. Now, she was the one doing the possessing. Drifting over to Dietrich, she used the membrane to break the handcuff off him. He stood and looked around.
    “Amanda?” He called out. “Amanda? Is that you? Are you here?” She tapped twice on a locker to signal “Yes.”
    “Did you do this? You’re still here? They killed you.”
    She tapped on the lockers again. She wasn’t sure of another way to communicate from here.
    “Can you help us from there? You’re in Purgatory now. Can you help us save Simon? And stop these afflicted?”
    She tapped twice on the locker again, though she wasn’t herself sure. Especially after she heard Him.
    “Well hello old friend. Fancy seeing you here” a voice said. Looking up she saw him. This was the first time she’d seen him as his true self. He was large and hideous with an elongated jaw, long and twisted horns coming from different parts of his head and hollow blackness where his eyes should be. It