EPISODE XXI: PRESIDENT

The story so far...

Lilith, Kirina, Ophelia, and I, Lightning, had found that we were in a completely different world after we killed the Gregmoir. Our powers didn't work, and Chaos was nowhere to be found. We found an assassination job, and after completing it, we were given our powers back. We then returned to Earth, only to find that nobody remembered that we existed, and that Louise Rentradt, instead of being killed, had become President.

* * *

“How do we even know that she's still bad?” Kirina said once the shock that Louise was President had subsided. “Other things have changed, maybe she did, too.”

“I don't think it works that way,” I said. “Even if we weren't in her life, she is still the same person.”

“Then we have to kill her,” Ophelia said. “There's no way around it.”

We were silent for a moment. Finally, Lilith said:

“That's never going to happen.”

We all stared at her.

“What?” she said. “It's true. She might still be able to stop Kirina's power, and if anybody gets too close to her, they will have a bullet in their face before they can even think of killing her. It's impossible.”

“She's right,” I said after a moment. “Right now, the best thing we can do is wait until she isn't President anymore, and kill her then.”

Just then, my phone rang. I picked it up.

“Hello?” I said.

“Come to the White House as soon as possible,” said a man on the other end. “President Rentradt would like to see you.”

There was a click, and then silence.

“Who was that?” Kirina asked.

“I think it was one of Louise's guards,” I replied. “They want us to go to the White House.”

Right then, there was a knock at the door. Lilith went to answer it. She came back holding plane tickets.

“It says the flight leaves in an hour,” she said. “We'd better go.”

The four of us left the apartment.

We were going to Washington.

* * *

A guard had picked us up at the airport and taken us to the White House. We were nervous; it was possible that Louise remembered Lilith and Kirina. If that were so, then we were all dead.

“Hello,” Louise said as we sat down opposite. “Lilith, Kirina, it's been a long time. Oh, and just so you know, I remember everything.”

We were silent for a moment.

“Where's Chaos?” Ophelia asked.

“He's in the asylum,” Louise replied. “But you aren't getting out of here alive.”

Then, she pulled out a gun and pointed it at me.

“Open a portal,” she said. “Or I'll kill you.”

I obeyed, and through it stepped...

...Miriam.

I realized something as soon as she had stepped through: she and Louise looked exactly the same.

“I slipped a note through when you left, in case you were wondering,” Miriam said. Then, turning to Louise, “are you ready?”

“Yes,” Louise replied.

The two of them grabbed each other's hands, and they began to...merge into something that looked like one of the Gregmoir.

“Shit,” I said.

The four of us began running.

“Not so fast,” the new demon said in a voice that sounded like Louise and one of the Gregmoir were talking at the same time.

It shot a fireball at us, but we moved to the side fast enough to escape. It burned a hole in the wall big enough for us to escape through. We ran, and didn't stop running until we were several miles away from the White House.

To Be Continued

May 9...