Chapter 129
Candy didn’t reply; instead, she suddenly turned into Dale’s next-door neighbor Ms. Jones, and she was naked. Dale had had a crush on her for as long as he could remember.
“Oh my god, how did you do that?”
“Like I said, I’m a Succubus. I have to be able to change into whomever you desire. That is my role in life. We are the seductresses of all those who would promise their souls to the Devil. I may not be in the market for seduction at the moment, but it is part of my nature. God also recognized the fact that mortals have certain needs, and I am here to fulfill those needs.”
Dale hadn’t stopped looking at her body. He’d always tried to picture what his neighbor looked like without clothes on, and now he knew.
It was everything he had imagined. Candy then turned back again in a blink of an eye.
“You also mentioned that I’d be going after monsters, what kind of monsters?”
“As I said before, we were on the way to deal with the latest one at this college when the death occurred. All we knew was that we were up against a doppelganger. And before you ask, a doppelganger is a monster that is a copy of someone who is living. They take over the life of the one they are copying. The very first thing a doppelganger does upon being brought to life is to kill the original so that it can take over that life. That is why you never see them or rather you think you never see them. They are the very epitome of evil.”
“You said that you were Hell Spawn, but doesn’t that mean you serve the Devil?” said Dale.
“Satan is my true master, but when God decrees that a person such as I serve the greater good. Satan has no say in it,” replied Candy, “You see it’s in Satan’s best interest for these monsters to be eradicated because whenever a monster kills a mortal, that mortal automatically goes to
Heaven.”
“Why is that?” said Dale.
“Because their deaths were deemed unnatural, and if they were left alone to develop naturally, they might turn bad; in which case Satan has a right to their souls.”
“I can see the logic in that. But tell me, why didn’t God take my memories away? It would’ve made this transition far less difficult,” said Dale.
“Two words…life experiences. If he took all of your memories, you wouldn’t even know how to use a phone or any number of things that would come in handy during your new life.”
“Here’s the thing, how am I supposed to kill monsters? I don’t even think I could kill,” said Dale.
“You don’t have to know how to do it you just need to hold your weapon. As soon as you’re holding that, it will take over.”
“Why, is it alive?”
“It’s not exactly alive, but it does know why it was created, and it bestows that knowledge onto anyone who wields it,” said Candy. “What kind of weapon is it?”
Candy held her hands out, and suddenly a sheathed samurai sword appeared in them. Dale took hold of its cover and picked it up. Then he gripped the handle, and suddenly he knew everything there was to know about fighting monsters. He quickly re-sheathed it and felt like himself again.
“Wow, that was traumatic,” he said pushing it back into Candy’s hands.
“You need to keep a hold of this. Take hold of it again and throw it over your shoulder, as if you were sheathing it behind you,” said Candy.
Dale took hold of it again and did what he was told. As he placed it over his shoulder, it suddenly disappeared.
“Whenever you want it, imagine it’s in your hand when you reach up to your shoulder and it will be there. You also cannot lose it. If you drop it, it will automatically return to the invisible sheath over your shoulder.” Dale tried it and sure enough, it appeared back in his hand.
“That’s pretty cool,” he said as he put it back again.
“If there are no more questions, it’s time we took care of the monster in this college. Are you ready?”
“I still have many questions, but they can wait. Let’s do this,” replied Dale.
They left the room together and headed for the teachers’ faculty room; once outside Candy turned to Dale.
“The only ones who can see us are monsters. That is how we’re able to locate them. Once we enter this room, if the doppelganger is in there, he or she will be the only one looking at us. Is that clear?”
“Yes, perfectly,” replied Dale as he reached for the door handle.
He opened the door and they walked in. No one looked in their direction. However, three of them had their backs to the door. Dale walked up to one of them.
“Professor Jones,” he said, but got no response.
He then turned to the second one, nearer the window.
“Professor Smith,” he said.
“Yes Dale, what can I do for you?” she said.
Dale reached up for the sword that he knew would be there, and as soon as it was in his hand, he knew what to do. Professor Smith saw the sword and had a pained look on her face, as if in recognition of what was about to happen. She then saw a flash of the blade as it passed through her head, and suddenly her body turned into a green oozing slime and fell to the floor. There was a scream from another professor who had witnessed her colleague’s collapse, and everyone else looked around. All they could see was the mass of slime on the floor and didn’t equate it to a once-living person. Dale and Candy left the room as they had entered it unobserved.
They both walked off the campus together, and Dale took one last look before walking through the archway that was the entrance.
“Where do we live now? I mean, do we even have to sleep?” said Dale.
“Oh yes, we still have to sleep and eat. As for where we live, we can live wherever we want to. Mortals can’t see us unless we want them to, so we can use the best hotels. That’s what my last master and I did,” replied Candy.
That, it turned out, was what they did that night. Dale took her to a hotel that he’d slept in once before. It was a beautiful place, not to mention a five-star hotel. Candy then showed him a trick at the front desk. If you don’t want to be disturbed, take a room that is last on the list. The chances are they won’t leave that room for the night you want to stay, so you won’t get disturbed by anyone checking into it. Soon they found themselves in one such room and made themselves comfortable.
“If you don’t mind, I’d like to take a shower. I need to unwind after today,” said Candy.
“No, I don’t mind. I need to rest as I feel utterly exhausted. Is that normal?”Please check at N/ôvel(D)rama.Org.
“Yes, it is quite normal. The energy you felt leaving your body when I touched you sap your strength for a while. A good night’s sleep is all you need to fully recover though,” replied Candy.