Angel Monarch

Faith took a couple seconds after the girl left to gather her thoughts. The infiltration wasn't easy and it took a lot out of her. Even worse, she was getting tired and sleepy.

'After this I have to leave or I might get caught by Nightmare.'

Faith turned to the room. It had a big desk in the middle and bookshelves on both sides.

'Where did he get books from?'

She would've loved to skim through them, but was short on time so instead she went straight to the desk. It was well organized there were a bunch of small things on it.

'Probably paper weights or something.'

But then she looked closer and actually gasped. A shiver ran down her spine. All over the table were bones, kept as memorabilias. There was a finger, part of a femur, a jaw and a dozen others she couldn't even name.

'What a sick fuck!'

Faith turned toward the drawers and opened the top right one. It had a bunch of papers in it. She started going through them, but put them down fast after she realized they were daily reports.

The next drawer was similar, but the one under it turned out to be quite interesting. It was a book or maybe an album?

Faith opened it and nearly dropped it. It was an album, and in it were pictures of naked woman. All of them were either dead, dying or just terrified. Next to them were nicknames, hair samples and teeth. Faith looked through it until she found it. There in the book was a picture of a horrified and dirty girl about 8 years old, next to the picture it read 'FREAK'.

A small tear ran down Faith's perfect face. She quickly closed the book and placed it back where she found it.

'Don't worry... We will rescue you soon... All of you...'

She shook her head and began searching through the other drawers. They only had junk in them.

'If I was an insane, rapist, asshole where would I hide my most precious information? At home? No, his table is organized, which implies he keeps work seperate from fun.'

Faith thought for a while, then looked towards the bookshelves and smiled.

'Who would keep books in the Apocalypse? Maybe someone who has to hide something in them.'

Faith made sure everything was in order on the table. Then walked towards the shelves and took the first book she found. Its cover was barren of writing and opening it the pages were the same, it was completely empty.

She opened another, then another and another. After about ten books she stopped.

'They are empty, all of them. Why? Why go through the trouble of making all these books? Maybe not all of them are empty? But they all looked the same, how would he know which one to open?'

After she put the books back at their exact places, Faith began comparing the spines.

'If the book has been opened multiple times, it should have a couple of breaks on the spine. Who knew going to the library once a week would help me be a better spy.'

A small smile crept on Faith's face, yeah this place was very dangerous but she also loved this job.

'Being a spy is awesome!'

After a couple of minutes she looked through most books, but there was nothing special about any of them. As Faith looked at the last of the books, she finally noticed an anomaly. On the cover of one book was a 10 pointed star, barely visible.

'Finally!'

She opened the book but again she nearly dropped it. The book was written with blood. She quickly looked through it and finally understood what the book was.

'I mean, just because you are insane why couldn't you keep a diary.'

As Faith looked through it, she quickly realized another thing.

'This begins at the Fall. Well, at least it write's about the events since then, who knows when he actually wrote it down.'

Every entry had a day counting up since the Fall. She read some of the entries.

<Day 12 since the Fall>

'These idiots want me to lead them, why? I'm not even the strongest, Bea is. Are they this blind?'

<Day 18 since the Fall>

'We lost another two hundred in a night raid and we are still two weeks away from Newber. With the amount we are losing, only about 15 thousand will arrive in the city.'

<Day 25 since the Fall>

'FUCK! The way to Newber is blocked! After a long debate with Hellfire, Bea and my sister, we decided to head into another direction. There is an abandoned city not far away called Havel. We could live there until someone gets help from Newber.'

<Day 31 since the Fall>

'We are closing in on the abandoned city of Havel. There is only 12 thousand of us left. Wonder how many will make it. These depressing thoughts won't help, I should visit Bea again during the night, she always knows what to do. Fuck, why isn't she the leader of all these sheeps. Even Hellfire would be a better choice.'

<Day 45 since the Fall>

'We finally established a safe space for ourselves. The headaches are getting worse, it gets better if my love Bea heals me, but only for a couple hours. It's driving me Mad!'

<Day 55 since the Fall>

'We decided to send my sister to Newber. We are safe currently so its fine. I also decided to make the woman whores. If they don't fight and look good, why don't my soldiers enjoy them.'

<Day 56 since the Fall>

'Good news, my headache disappeared without a trace! Finally my mind is free, maybe I enjoy a couple of woman. It's nice to see them trying to fight me, so I can beat them up.'

<Day 58 since the Fall>

'Lucy finally came back, Newber seems to be destroyed. I don't really care though. With this news spreading I can finally rule without opposition. Well, there is Bea. I should beat her into submission as well. After all I'm an Ascended already, now even she can't stop me.'

<Day 60 since the Fall>

'THAT TRAITOROUS FUCK!!! I WILL KILL THEM ALL!!!'

<Day 61 since the Fall>

'Why? Why am I like this? I just want to hurt others... Why?'

<Day 62 since the Fall>

'I should surrender to it! It whispers to me! It says if I stop fighting all my problems cease to exist!'

<Day 63 since the Fall>

'Hehe, I am free. Hehe, the end is near. But first it spreads! IT HAS TO SPREAD! Spread. Need more!

There has to be more! Everyone will be more!'

<Day 68 since the Fall>

'The Bright Whore has arrived, but the surprise is nearly ready. And then she will join!'

This was the last entry, there is more writing afterward. But it's either gibberish or a Mad persons ravings.

'This is a lot to process. So, Lucy is Nightmare's sister? How did non of us knew? Even more surprising, Bea was his lover? They hung out a bunch of times everyone knew that, but to have this close of a relationship? And who is Hellfire, his name comes up a lot.

He was or is an important person to Nightmare. What happened to him?'

Before she could think about it longer, she lost control and said.

"You have to leave immediately, Nightmare is coming!"