The battle rages

Maigoth made his move, but Faye was ready for it. She quickly sidestepped his attack, wheeled around and swung her sword with all her might at one of the tentacles. Maigoth howled in pain as the tentacle fell writhing on the floor.

"YOU BITCH!" Maigoth screamed. "What have you done?!"

Faye laughed at her injured foe. She knew taunting him now would add insult to injury, and make the floating blob madder yet. "Have you ever heard of calamari? I thought your tentacle would make the ideal calamari. But I wonder, is one tentacle going to be enough? What do you think?"

"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU BITCH!" Maigoth's voice shook the entire room. He charged again with **** in his eyes. But once again, Faye dodge the attack, spun around, and sliced off another tentacle.

Faye laughed again as the blob fell to the floor, floundering and quivering like jelly. "Well I think that does it for calamari. And I think that just about does it for you. Now for the final touch. She leaped into the air, and onto the top of the blob, bringing her sword down right between the blob's eyes. The sword penetrated the blob up to the hilt.

Maigoth howled and thrashed wildly, trying to shake Faye off of him, but she held on tight to the sword, and twisted it into Maigoth deeper. Finally, the blob was still. Maigoth was no more. Faye pulled her sword free and wiped the black blood from her blade off on the dead monster's carcass. "Demons really should learn how to control their tempers. They can't fight worth a damn when their egos are hurt."

Faye hopped off of the blob that was Maigoth, and gave it a swift kick to make sure it was no longer living. Then, a strange thing happened. The Demonic blob turned into a pile of dust, silver dust. The dust rose from the floor, and began reshaping itself. "What kind of Demon trick is this?" Faye said out loud. Two bodies had started to form from the leftovers that once were Maigoth. One was a male that Faye recognized as one of the cult chanters. The other was her sister Siris. Both were naked, and both were unaware of what was happening. When the transmutation was complete, they both fell to the floor, alive and barely conscious.

Faye raced to her fallen sister's side, and gently cradled her head. "Wake up Siris!"

Siris opened her eyes, and looked around. "What happened? Where are my clothes?"

"Apparently, you were trapped inside the Demon I just defeated. he must have been a soul eater."

"All I know is my head hurts a great deal." Siris sat up, and rubbed her temples gently. Then she noticed the naked man beside her. "Who the hell is he?"

"If I had to guess," Faye said , "I'd say he was Maigoth's first victim. I think we'll find him to be grateful and more agreeable to telling us about the cult. At least I hope he will be. We'll find out when he wakes up."