Chapter 29: She Is The Monster

We don't get a happy ending.

N7x

Her throat felt like it was on fire. She opened her eyes. Sin stood above her and was looking down at her. "I see you're awake." Sin said, "I have something to show you."

N7x sat up turning to look behind seeing them. She gasped. Lust was back. But she wasn't alone. Next to her were others. "Introducing," Sin began reaching a hand out in the direction of the new person. "Made out of certain memories and what-if ideas of yours. A simple shade but a version of her. Red Nyx."

N7x shook her head. "No, we need to lock her away you need to stop."

"Stop?" Sin gasped, walking over to the Shadow of Red's side. "I am thinking you get punished and this thing takes command."

"Any ideas or thoughts connected to Red or even this thing, this Shadow of Red is dangerous!"

"Excellent if this pet will be what I want you to be or what my masters want you to be then it will be done. Die, N7x." Sin looked to Lust then to Shadow of Red and gave them a nod. The shadow and Lust began to advance.

Suddenly a beam of black light came down between N7x and her enemies. The light dissipated and standing before them was Aezlith. Aezlith turned to face N7x. "However this goes. We both know that-"

Sin and N7x finished her sentence. "We don't get a happy ending."

"You take Red and I fight Lust?" Aezlith asked.

N7x nodded. "Cool!" Aezlith replied turning to face their enemies. Snapping with her hands. A sword seemly made out of pure white light or energy appeared in her hands. She rushed forward screaming a battle cry at the top of her lungs towards Lust.

Shadow of Red approached N7x. N7x summoned a sword with a snap. But so did the Shadow of Red. Their blades met and both jumped back. Circling each other. Taking it slow and cautious. Each of them assumes a defensive stance. Both of them hated the other. Red then changed forms to a more aggressive hold of her weapon. Leaping forward swinging her blade down hard. Block! Parry! CLANG! SWOOOSH! N7x cut the Shadow of Red in half. Sin who was sitting watching the battle stood up startled. The Shadow of Red's body turned to dust. Sin then let out a heavy sigh. "Must I do everything around here?"

N7x held her weapon at the ready. Thinking if should advance on Sin or help Aezlith. She looked to where Aezlith and Lust were fighting still seemly evenly matched. Turning her attention back to Sin but instead, she was greeted by an uppercut to her jaw. Sending her in the air landing hard on her back. Her blade was now dismissed. Sin laughed. She stood up slowly. Feeling pain in her back. "My back! Ugh!"

"Never give your back to your opponent." Sin stated.

N7x snapped with both of her hands. Summoning two blades. But in a flash of speed. Sin was now in front of her. What? She thought! WHAM! N7x was on the ground again from Sin's blow. "Vampire speed at least you're a fan of it in your memories and heart, your fond of it and wish it were real. Here, it can be accessed which begs the question why aren't you using it? Scared? Weak? Not as evil as you thought you were? More Christian than you thought?"

"I won't join them and I won't join you!" N7x tried to punch her.

Sin simply blocked her attacking subduing her hands above her head. "You must pick a side! Either your darkest demons and sins or the Christians! Stop with this middle ground bullshit!"

"What if me not choosing already says what side I am on?"

Sin paused having a puzzled look on her face. "What do you mean?"

"You're either with their god or against him right? Well, I am not with their god so technically I am already on your side going to hell, the place where your masters want me to go?"

"Yes, I guess, but you have the potential to be even eviler. A path, an idea, that if committed and done right you would be honored in hell! The idea of a 14-year-child. Hellbent on destroying everything God has created because he didn't save your grandfather, Red N7x. That could be you or at least. . .very slim chances like impossible chances but still a small chance of success in butchering all of Satan's enemies or at least his mortal ones."

"Like I said I don't want to join you. But technically I have already. I won't ever become Red N7x. You can beat me down and punish me or break me but I swear I'll resist if you try to force me to become my nightmare, to become the monster in the closet. THAT IS WHO I'LL NEVER BE! BECAUSE I AM STRONGER THAN THE MONSTER!" She headbutted Sin who recoiled from the strike. Standing up N7x punched Sin in the face. Then delivered a kick to Sin's gut sending her down on the ground. Snapping her fingers. A blade was now in her hands. She plunged it down into Sin's chest.

Sin let out a cry of pain, then began to laugh. N7x now had a puzzled look on her face. Sin finally stopped laughing. "Stronger than the monster? You mean monsters?!" Sin seemed to float up in the area taking ghostly form flying through N7x's and sword. Then standing beside N7x back in her normal human-looking form. N7x couldn't believe it. She was at a loss for words.

Sin snapped. A hammer was now in her hands. She then lifted it above her head. N7x blinked realizing what she was about to do! "NO! WAIT!" Sin brought it down on the surface of the tower they stood on. The floor shuddered. Ripples of energy shot out. "Oh, memories! To the ones that she threw away! To the ones, she locked away! WAKEY WAKEY!" Sin shouted! The tower seemed to expand. It was no longer a tower just a long battlefield. Portals black portals. Opened up all over the place. Versions of her stepped out, no! Thoughts and ideas that she had deemed evil and wrong stepped out of their portals. A ton of her a ton of Deltas or a Thought of Delta and N7x multiple of her. All of them looked at her N7x. The memories she kept under lock and key. Her demons. The evil that she tried to contain every now and then. Sometimes an idea or two would come back or a new one but she fought it, she fought herself. Her fighting herself. Ideas of fear, ideas of shame, ideas of self-destruction, ideas of hate, and so many more of them, 21 years' worth of evil thoughts that came and go. Some of them she managed to lock away before they took root.

"Who is the monster? Sin asked. Her demons snapped summoning swords, axes, guns, all of them then pointed in unison at N7x and they answered in unison. "She is the monster!"

"Monster" - Skillet (Cover by First to Eleven)