LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 179: You're the Real Monster
Hope and I walked into the bank and a detective stopped us. She had auburn hair in a ponytail and a black trench coat. "How did you get into this crime scene?"
"Pete let us through after shooting me several dozen times," I said.
She got a confused look on her face and then talked into her radio. "Pete, what the hell is this? You can't let civilians onto a crime scene!"
"Calm down, Lisa," Pete said. "You know how monsters are real now? Well he's one of them. Apparently they're monster crime investigators or something."
"You really believed that? Anyone can say anything Pete. You of all people should know that," Lisa said.
"I shot him in the face multiple times. He's the real deal, Lisa," Pete said.
"The magician has many tricks at his disposal, but never the assistant," Lisa said, sliding over to Hope. She pulled out her gun and aimed it under Hope's chin. "What about her Pete? Is she the real deal? Let's see if she bleeds."
Lisa lowered the gun and aimed it at Hope's chest. She took the safety off. "Have I called your bluff, yet?" She said to me. "Can we end this song and dance? Just admit you're a charlatan, and get the fuck out of my face and off my fucking crime scene, and I won't shoot your girlfriend."
"Are you really going to shoot my girlfriend for wandering onto a crime scene? Is that even legal?" I said.
"It doesn't matter if it's legal. What matters is what I say happened. I didn't sleep at all last night, thinking about this case, and the last thing I need is some asshat trying to tell me how to do my job!"
"You can't be serious," I said. "Just shoot me, if you want someone to shoot!"
"Maybe you are the real deal," she said. "Maybe you really are a bulletproof monster, but she isn't. I can tell by your reactions that if I shoot her, she'll die. And all I'd have to say is you both attacked me. You being a monster, makes that all the more believable."
She pointed at a nearby camera in the corner of the room. "You see how there's no red light? That means it's not recording. We had to take them offline to review the footage. And we three, are the only people in this room."
I shielded Hope with my body and created a circular blood shield in the direction of Lisa so she couldn't shoot Hope.
"You think a shield's going to stop me?" Lisa said. "What happens if I do this?" She put her gun against the blood shield and shot it.
The shield blocked the shot, but the shot weakened the shield momentarily in that one spot, and Lisa was pushing her gun against the shield, so her gun barrel slipped through the shield.
She tried to aim at Hope, around the side of my body and she fired her gun. I was luckily quick enough to move my body so I took the bullet, but this woman was dangerous. And smart. Eventually she would get a good shot and hit Hope.
I looked at Hope and said, "Hope. Your bracelet. Take it off!" I didn't fear for my life, but I feared for hers. I should have thought about this back at the dragon complex. Experience tales at My Virtual Library Empire
Because of the humanizing bracelet, she was vulnerable, but if she just took it off or turned it off, she'd be invincible. I honestly couldn't understand why she hadn't taken the bracelet off herself yet. She had to have known.
Hope looked at me with sad eyes and said, "But you won't like the way I look anymore. You'll never not see me as a monster." She was starting to get real tears in her eyes.
Wow. I didn't realize looking human was that important to her, that she'd risk her life multiple times for it.
"Hope, I'll like you regardless of how you look, and I'll like you a whole lot less if you're dead, so take off the fucking bracelet!" I yelled at her.
I can't believe I yelled at her. I never yelled at my girls. I may have raised my voice at Ophelia a bit, but I never yelled. But this was life or death. I hoped she understood that I yelled because I cared.
"Fine!" She said, "I'll take off the stupid bracelet, you asshole!" She ripped the bracelet off her wrist. It clinked when it hit the ground.
Lisa's gun clicked as she cocked it. She pressed it against the back of Hope's neck. She had just walked around behind Hope while Hope was arguing with me. I couldn't focus on both things at the same time.
"It might be hard to explain bullets to the back of the neck, but that's a risk I'm willing to take," Lisa said. She fired her gun 3 times into the back of Hope's neck, right against her spine.
Hope still looked human. Her skin hadn't changed yet. I tensed up, worried we were too late. Hope was giving me this blank eyed stare, and I couldn't tell if that meant she was dead or just in shock.
Hope's eyes stayed blank for almost 10 seconds, but then they blinked. And they got angry. Her eyes turned into diamonds first, then the skin on her face and neck and body. She started to get bigger, and I got knocked off her, by the speed of her growth.
Her clothes were torn to pieces because she grew too large for them. Her skin turned blue and crystallized in a wave pattern. Geometric shapes emerged from her skin and her joints became visible geometric junctions.
She grew to 3 meters tall and crystals grew out of her back and shoulders. Her body ended up as a feminine, vaguely humanoid combination of different geometric patterns. She still had a face, but it was incredibly angular and segmented. Her arms didn't even end in hands anymore. They ended in sharp points.
Hope turned around to face her attacker. I watched the three bullets fall from the back of her neck. She had transformed in time. Lisa stared in utter shock and horror at Hope's form. She stepped back and tripped falling onto her back.
"Monster! Get back! Stay away from me!" Lisa scrambled backwards on the ground, aiming her gun at Hope. She fired it several times into Hope's chest, but the bullets flattened and did nothing.
Hope stood looking at the scared pathetic woman on the ground and eventually turned away, back to me. She made crystalline tinkling noises as she moved and her body had a prismatic effect on the light shining on her.
"Now, do you see, Dylan? Why I would rather die than have you see me this way?" She put her spikes for hands up to her face and I saw tears form in her eyes that fell to the ground as diamonds.
I looked past Hope at Lisa. "Now, look at what you did! You made her cry you monster! We're not the monsters here. You are," I said.
I put my hand out and blood shot out of my wrist and went to the door to the outside. The blood formed into a wall of moving knives that would cut her to pieces if she tried to escape outside.