The Deity Entertainment Network Chapter 95 – The Black Knight

Parrax Station - Ore Storage Block 38

*Bang* *Bang*

"Tell where your boss is keeping the dwarf prisoner nad Chris. Do that, and you won't end up like your two friends there." John growled at the woman he was choking. He just executed two other gang mbers in front of her, both of them claiming she was their boss. He had her pinned to the ground and was pressing his knee against her throat.

It was the sa woman who was trying to kidnap Chris a few days ago.

"I dunno man, he just sends us to collect the rents! I have no idea wher- urk!" She said, but stopped when he applied more pressure to her neck.

"Wrong answer."

*Bang*

"AHHHH!!! MY FOOT!!! YOU BAST-"

*Slap*

"You want to finish that sentence? You have a lot of other body parts I can shoot off before you die. Now, if you don't know where she is, who does?" John growled coldly at her, jamming the pistol against her knee.

"Ahh! Dani would! Dani works… in that side of… their operations!" She said, squirming underneath him.

"Good. Dani. And where would I find this Dani?" He asked, keeping the pressure on her neck. She was a strong woman, and he didn't want her to try to wrestle him again. He needed answers, not more corpses. Not yet.

"Storage Bay 22... They smuggle... drugs and... other things through... there. If soone... knows other than... the bosses, it would be... the people in there!" She said, though her half-crushed windpipe.

"Good girl. See how easy that was when you cooperated? Glad I didn't kill you last week." He said with a smile on his face that didn't reach his eyes. "Now, be a good girl and die for ."

*Bang*

John stood up from the fresh corpse and looked over at Tanya. She had a resigned look on her face that didn't register with John at that ti. "Where is Storage Bay 22?" He asked, holstering his pistol.

"Ahh... down a few levels and partway around the station." She said, sounding scared.

"Lead on then. We will find Chris, even if I have to tear this organisation to the ground." He said matter-of-factly.

This was the third group of gang mbers he had torn through so far, and he was finally making headway in his search. In the process, he ended up learning more about the gang's hierarchy and all the illicit things they had their fingers in, from designer drugs, piracy, to humanoid trafficking.

Camila was apparently the gang's actual leader, so sadistic raven-haired bitch who tortured people for fun. Timur was a disgraced noble's son, but still had connections all over the station with the authorities and the bureaucracy. The pair of them had found each other a few years back, and suddenly organised cri increased tenfold on the station, Camila being the brawn to Timur's brains. They were a literal match made in hell for anyone on the right side of the law.

Due to politics, the INP were unable or unwilling to oust the gang, but that ended today if John had anything to say about it.

Well, until I find Chris anyway.

They made their way down to the next gang hideout unhindered, the chaos of the evacuation providing a distraction to the gang's leadership as they were probably trying to plan their own escapes as well. John stepped up to the door to Cargo Bay 22 and cast his barrier magic again, the spell acting like full-body armour. It was kind of funny watching a thug's fist shatter when they had tried to punch him earlier, the spell making it like he was punching a brick wall.

He was finding a lot of things kind of funny today.

Unbeknownst to him, a sadistic smile was plastered across his face.

He tried to open the door, but it was locked. He drew his sword and, in three slashes, made his own. The magical weapon didn't seem to care about these being sci-fi materials, though he couldn't imagine that the door was made of anything special. He stepped through and was t with a hail of gunfire.

"Dark, Dark, Dark, Dark,” He called out in rapid succession while rolling to the left, blinding the four gang mbers he could see. He took a step forward but realised sothing was wrong. He looked down and noticed his bad shoulder had been hit; the limb was no longer able to move correctly. He frowned at that, not feeling any pain from the wound. "Middle Heal, Cure"

He continued in, grabbing the first gang mber, another woman. "Are you Dani?" He asked her.

"Who wants to- *BANG* ARRRGGGHH!!" She bellowed when he shot her in the thigh.

"The fucking Grim Reaper, that is who. Are. You. Fucking. Dani!" He asked, squeezing her neck.

"Fuck you- *BANG* ARRRGGGHHH!!" he shot her in the other leg.

"I can do this all day. Your three friends are blinded like you are; they ain't coming to rescue you, neither are your friends on the levels above. They are already dead. Now, are you Dani!"

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Yes! Fuck I am Dani!" She said, squirming in his grip.

"Good. Next question. Where is Chris, the dwarf woman, at?" He said, running the muzzle of his pistol along her waist, the heat from the barrel causing her skin to blister. She kept trying to flinch away, but he had control of her movents.

"Don't tell'em Dan- *Bang*" The speaker dropped, a bullet hitting his head.

"Tell , Dani, and this will all be over. Where is Chris?"

"Outback, locked up with that Dark Elf. We have orders to move them off the station in thirty minutes... please don't kill ."

"Good girl... wait, did you just piss on , Dani?" John said, looking down. On the floor below him was a puddle of urine, dripping from the gang mber's leg. It amused him. "I thought you guys were all hardened criminals. Well, we don't want to leave any witnesses to your accident, do we?" He said, his tone sounding like he was about to do her a favour.

*Bang* *Bang*

The final two gang mbers dropped.

"Now, Dani, where is the ‘outback’ here? Show ." He said, cancelling his darkness spell and throwing her to the ground.

"I can't walk you, bastard, how would I show you?" She cursed at him, in obvious pain.

"Crawl. Crawl like your life depends on it. Because I assure you it does, Dani." He growled at her.

He could heal her, but that would be a waste of mana. She was already stealing perfectly good oxygen from him, so he didn't want to let her take anything else.

"John... isn't this a little too much?" Tanya whispered beside him as Dani began to crawl away.

"Wait to see what condition your sister is in, then I will accept your judgnt on my actions. These are not people in my mind, Tanya. They are scum. They are only fit to be sent into a wood chipper feet first."

Tanya wasn't sure what a wood chipper was, but didn't ask. Whatever it was, it would probably be a very painful way to die if this version of John was acting like this.

They followed the crawling woman all the way to the back, which took a significant amount of ti. Ti Tanya didn't think they should be wasting if John wanted to go and rescue Ash as well, but she was too terrified of John's eyes to say anything.

"Chris, you need to stop. You are just going to kill yourself." Serena told her companion. The Dark Elf woman was already resigned to her fate of becoming that sadistic woman's sex toy. She was just hoping she survived long enough for her brother to find out what happened, and he could mount a rescue operation. He would swarm this system with fifty thousand soldiers to save his little sister if he knew she was in this situation.

"No... I..." Chris started to say, her arms bloody and weak from losing blood. She thought she had made so progress earlier, but she ended up popping off the covering to one of the electrodes in the manacles, and the sharp protrusion punctured one of her veins. She had been slowly bleeding out for the last few hours, the cut too large for clots to form properly, but too small to kill her quickly. She knew she didn't have much ti left, but if she could free herself, she could... she could...do sothing.

*Bang*

"Huh?"

*Bang*

"Chris, that is gunfire."

"Gunfire? That is silly. Why ‘ould they be shooting at us? They already ‘ave us captured."

"No, dumbass. I think they are under attack! Maybe soone is coming to rescue us. By the Crystals, you need dical attention if you are that loopy."

"Dumbass? Hah, they shot right in the bum to capture , did I tell ya that?" Chris replied, stating to beco a little delirious.

*Bang* *Bang* *Bang*

Silence.

"Chris, are you still with ?"

"Yeah. I am here... I ... Serena, I am feeling a little weak... I don't think I can break these." She whispered.

"Don't worry about that. Hey, why don't you tell a story?"

"A story?" She replied, confused. She didn't know many stories; she was always into her textbooks. "I don't really know any stories."

"Oh. How about that story about the man you and Tanya wanted to et? The one to sweep you both off your feet and have your happily ever after with." Serena said, reaching for sothing to keep Chris with her. If she passed out now, she was afraid she would never wake up. If these were rescuers coming, she would need to get her to an Auto-Doc ASAP.

"Hah, yeah, that didn't happen. I thought it might ‘ave, but the guy turned out ta be crazy. Tanya went along with ’im and left alone."

"Really? Who was it?"

"John. That man. Ya know, ‘e was such a nice guy too... ‘e saved from being kidnapped once, ya know. Fuckin Tanya gave him a blowie for it...gawd it is weird feeling pleasure from ya sister getting a cock stuffed down ‘er throat... I ‘ad ta run to the bedroom and rub one out real quick while they ‘ere doing it. I hope she felt that too!"

"Well, he seems like he was a great guy. Why didn't you join them?" Serena said, not wanting to say she thought the world of him for allowing her to purchase that racing pod from him in installnts.

"Cause 'e thinks gods are real! Like who does that these days... 'e said a god sent... or... wait, was that it? I don't rembers much now, but ‘e was a jerk... I wanted a white knight to co and sweep off my feet, and ‘e dresses in all black most of the ti... Ya know, I almost swapped my hair dye out for red ta see if I could trick 'em into kissin' like 'e does Tanya. 'e doesn't even look at . We're the sa!" Chris started rambling on nearly incoherently, then started to cry.

"Oh, Chris." She said, wishing she could comfort the other woman.

"Why can't I 'ave a white knight too, ya know!" She said, sobbing on the ground.

*CRACK, CRACK, CRACK, SLAM*

The door suddenly collapsed inwards, and in strode John, sword in hand.

"JOHN! HURRY! CHRIS IS DYING!" Serena yelled, her wits still about her thanks to her implants.

John zeroed in on them and rushed over, severing their manacles and picking up Chris. "Middle Heal!* Middle Heal! Cure!" John chanted. It was a prayer to a god, and a god appeared to have answered him. Serena was floored.

He prayed to a god and received an answer? Is there really a god?

She was so focused on what John was doing, she didn't notice Tanya moving up beside him, tears in her eyes at the sight of her injured sister.

John himself wasn't paying attention to either of them; his entire focus was on Chris. After a few minutes, he had finished up, and Chris opened her eyes, staring up into his.

"Yer not my white knight, be ye will do." She whispered, then fell asleep, cradled in her black knight's arms.

* - Rember, unlike the other spells, the healing spells are a chant, not just him yelling out heal. I just don't want to write it out every ti.