The cage

Part II- Inner Demons

"I would never consider myself an angel of Mercy...Yet there is still a side of me that shows care for the sick and infirm. I still have my protective side. Whoever is behind this is fucking with the beings I consider family. It's time to get the hell out of here."

Nyxy pulled herself from the ground her resolve finally returned. Drawing her sword she made her way quietly throughout the room checking inside dividers, someone had to be behind this horrible place. That same someone had her stuck in this makeshift triage. She moved as stealthy as possible not to attract any other scalpel hand nurses. Up ahead Nyxy was greeted to a horrific wheezing sound. The noise reminding her of people who had severe lung trouble when she was a nurse. 'Whoever was responsible for that sound may know something...' With that in mind she continued ahead. Frustrated she checked several dividers either finding the same dead body she had covered up when first entering this area, to the scalpel hands who were busy cutting up whatever victim laid before them. Nyxy found herself growing angrier determined to find the source of the sound...Just as she felt her rage hit a key point the divider she poked her head into gave way to a horrible hideous being. The form female was a wretch of a life form, pus covered boils covered her body, her skin a pallor greenish color. Her eyes sunken in, whatever she once was now she was a suffering blight. Nyxy was torn between revulsion and pity, just another emotion she hoped to one day grow out of. She approached the being and asked "who are you and who did this?"

Her response was a deep wheezing sound, mucous rattling in the chest of the being "don't know, kill me..." Nyxy frowned harder "you do not know anything about your captures then?" The female wheezes again then vomits a disgusting mass of phelm and bile. "N-no, they take me, make me sleep do things. I wake up here in pain, suffering...Kill me." Nyxy sighed she was smart enough to know this female could not answer her question. "Fine I shall release you from your suffering." Nyxy raised her blade aiming it for right between the woman's eyes. As she began to lower it she was caught off guard knocked off balance by a scalpel hand nurse. The creature in full attack mode digging her scalpels into Nyxy's abdomen. Nyxy while in pain was angry again she was sick of these things, sick of this place. The creature had not been strong enough to knock the blade out of her hand. After take yet another brutal stab to her stomach she used her sword to split the nurse from the crotch up. The creature falling apart in two pieces. Grunting and bleeding Nyxy slowly rises to her feet, she knew she should heal herself but she had a task to finish. Her honor required it...

Without a word her blade severed the head of the female on the bed, no more wheezing no more pain. As she did this she managed to look up and notice unlike the other times she entered a divider, that there was now a wall behind the bed. Using her will to heal her stomach she then focused on the wall, no window...no visible door... 'Nyxy you should smash it...' She could hear Doc's voice in her head, 'Great that's all I need to be hearing that crazy fool in me brain...' Sighing she figured there was no other way. Knowing her strength was capable of doing so she aimed a punch at the wall to make a hole. Her fist hurt as she connected to the solid mass...With no result. "You call that a punch gal? I thought you were strong but I guess you are as weak as the people you despise." Nyxy was not sure if this was her inner voice or someone tormenting her but she had enough. Filled with fury she aimed another hard punch at the wall this time making a decent size hole into it. Finally her wound closed tired but needing to find out who was behind this had her climb through the wall. Down the hallway was a light and noise it sounded like arguing at first, than just a voice. Nyxy made her way towards it, though the way seemed long to get to it. When she got closer to the light the voice faded some but she could still hear someone up ahead. Opening the door she found herself thrusted into a oddly familiar enviorment. Though it was over thirty years ago since she last seen this place, it was burned in her memories. A kitchen from her childhood, one of the few places she had once called home right after the tragedy of her mother's death. "Where the hell am I?" she mutters then turned as a large looming figure appears behind her. He glared at her with contempt holding a bottle of rum in his hand "whatcha be doing here?" Nyxy stared in shock at Josef, her father seemed larger than life itself. She could not answer him only stare in complete shock at him. "You bitch how dare ye come before me, its because of ye, she gone."

Nyxy realizing his words could only glare in anger "you blame me for her death? It was your family's rejection and her's not me!" Her head reels back as a hard strike hits the left side of her face. Stunned she reels back some "She would have stayed with me if ye hadn't been born!" Nyxy growled "you are the one who got her pregnant its your fault she is dead!" That earned her another hard slap against her left side. Nyxy glared knocking the rum from her father's hand. "I am sick of you sick of your weak will you fucking drunk!" This earned her yet another strike. Nyxy glared up at him a trickle of blood dripping down the side of her mouth "you hit like your mother." Josef glared at her about to charge. Nyxy was at her limit, she had enough of this. Her blade in her hand she struck swiftly lobbing his head off. "I am better off without you and her." She said softly, as the body fell back and dissipated the illusion around her faded. The hospital setting gone and before her a staircase leading up to a small building. Weary Nyxy stared up the staircase, whoever was responsible for this was up there she was sure of it.

And she was about to kick their ass...


To be continued.