A tentacle slashed down at him. I rose and cut it with my sword. The tentacle hit me as it dissolved, pain exploding in my side. I staggered but held. Jets of water struck the creature in the eyes as it snarled in agony.
Master Lance thrust his spear deeper into it, grunting as he drove it into the beast. Fire lashes seized tentacles trying to rain down on him. Mom and Veronica appeared around us, blocking other attacks. Wind cut more of the disgusting tentacles.
"Kill it!" I screamed, forming my sword into a shield and standing with my fellow Bodyguard-Maids around our Master.
~~*~~
Ms. Lynette Docea
Master Hayward ripped his spear out of the thing's mouth and stabbed again.
The monster recoiled back from the golden spear. It retreated. Master Hayward and his maids advanced. I slashed my hands, sending winds to cut the tentacles. More formed, thrusting out the creature's bulk.
Was it using up its mass to make more attacks? It was so hard to tell as the mass of shadows undulated. They spilled back over the altar, pressed to the back of the church. It roared in pain as Lance's golden spear blazed before it, pure sunlight burying into the darkness.
The tentacles flailed. Nancy and her daughters slashed with their fiery lashes. Rita Johnson and I threw blades of air at the creature's appendages. They burst into night that melted over our heads. Janiqua and Kylie fired blasts of water, aiming for its eyes.
Nancy Heres screamed.
She fell, struck by a tentacle, her leg twisted at a strange angle. Broken. She snarled through the pain and lashed at the creature again. Her whip hissed out and seized a tentacle, her fire burning through it. The tentacle melted away.
A new one sprouted.
My wind cut through a tentacle.
A new one grew.
There were only... nine of them.
"Stop cutting them!" I cried as Deborah's lash burned through another only for its replacement to grow from nearly the same spot. "Pin them! Hold them! It has a finite number of tentacles. Rita, let's pin it to the ceiling with our wind."
"Yes!" Rita Johnson said, my fellow Teacher-Maid thrusting her hands forward.
Instead of cutting blades, we fired blasts of winds that struck tentacles and pinned them to the ceiling. Nancy Heres and her daughters seized more of the tentacles. Torrents of water pinned two more to the ground. That was seven.
Only two were left, the Bodyguard-Maids blocking with their shields. When one hit Veronica's defense, her shield flowed around the tentacle and became a weight that pinned it to the ground. Mrs. Miles copied her.
The creature roared and thrashed, unable to move. We had all its appendages held in place. Master Hayward thrust his spear into the creature again. It wiggled about as he did, roaring in fury. He marched forward, driving his weapon deeper.
"Go for the heart, Master Hayward," Cali calmly said as she strode past me.
~~*~~
Lance Hayward
With it pinned, it couldn't escape me now. I could feel pulsing in the creature. I shifted my spear, probing into the creature's flesh. It bellowed, shadowy teeth clamping down on my weapon, trying to stop it.
But the Golden Power poured out of me was too strong. The creature fought to escape, but my maids held it pinned. Helpless. The beating grew stronger. I probed with the end of my spear, moving toward the pounding until...
The creature screamed in agony. Its fetid breath washed hot around me as I speared into its heart.
"Yes!" Cali screamed. She moved up beside me, her golden garter glowing as bright as my spear. "By the Ancient Oath, I bind thee, Malevolence! With the salt that plants vitality in the earth! The rhythm of life that spreads the heat of passion! The breath of soul that speaks truths! And the saliva that spills like rain upon the world. I bind thee, Malevolence!"
Golden light exploded from her garter, exposing a chain attached to it that melted off into nothing. A moment later, the spear erupted into my hand, the glow devouring the form of the thing. Malevolence screamed in agony as the power swallowed it.
"I BIND THEE, MALEVOLENCE!" Cali howled.
Shadows burst around Cali that swirled and formed into a flash of wings extending from her back. They spread wide as her purple eyes glowed, her face falling into shadows. The golden light that had seized Malevolence contracted into a myriad chains that crushed its bulk. The creature screamed, its tentacles flailing. Pinned by my women, they ripped free of the bulk being compressed smaller and smaller by my power
The light flashed. It was so bright, but it didn't blind me.
When it faded, a painting hovered in the air before me. In it, a formless thing of black shadows lurked beneath the pews of unsuspecting worshipers. Tentacles that reached to feed on them while a mouth yawned open at the back of the church.
I grabbed it and felt Malevolence's fury at being imprisoned in the painting. The frame shook with its rage. I gripped it, panting. My entire body shook, sweet sticking my t-shirt to my back and chest. More dripped from my brow.
"You passed," Cali said.
~~*~~
Nancy Heres
The nun whimpered as Lynette Docea helped the naked woman into the back of the limo. I wasn't sure why the teacher wanted to take the nun back with us. I just groaned from the throbbing pain in my broken leg. I wasn't the only one hurt. Izzy groaned, hurt by the blow she took, and Bella rubbed at the back of her head.
Angela rushed up to me, her bodice unlaced to spill out her round breasts. My niece said, "Let me help you, Auntie Nancy."
"You have all your mother's memories, huh?" I asked her as there was something in her tone that was so familiar.
"I know it's not the first time you've broken this leg." She grinned at me. "You were climbing a tree with Mommy. You tried to show off but you fell. Mommy felt bad she let you. She was your big sis and should have protected you."
"Huh," I groaned as she put her arm around me and helped me limp to the limo. "I never knew she felt bad."
"So bad," said Angela.
Once she helped me into the limo and onto one of the benches, she pulled me down to her breast. I latched onto my cute niece's nipple and suckled. Instantly, refreshing and delicious breast milk flowed into my mouth.
I groaned and suckled down more. The pain in my leg vanished. As I swallowed down mouthful after mouthful, I felt the bones shifting around. It didn't hurt one bit, but it did feel damned strange to have all that movement in my leg.
Even when the sickening crack came as the broken halves of my bones came together, it didn't hurt at all. I just kept enjoying my niece's breast milk. She had such sweet and creamy delight. I gulped it down.
Izzy latched onto the other nipple, suckling with me.
"Mmm," cooed Angela as she held us both to her breasts.
"So it is like Mom," Master said. "Magical healing breast milk."
"Yep," Angela said. "Oh, you're hurt, too, Master. I saw you get knocked down."
"Heal the others," he said.
~~*~~
Sister Martha Ruth
I trembled, Sister Shannon Esther's screams echoing through my mind. A woman hugged me. She held me tight as I clutched to her. She stroked my back and soothed me with her whispers. Tears spilled down my cheeks.
"Lord, that thing..." I whimpered. "I don't understand. Our faith should have driven back the darkness. It doesn't make sense."
"You just need to have a complete understanding," the woman said. She smiled down at me, red hair spilling around her face, her green eyes bright. "That's all. You didn't know what you were up against."
I shifted as I realized she was dressed in a maid's uniform, but not a practical one. Like something wanton girls would wear on Halloween. Her bosom almost spilled out of her bodice. Her skirt was short, a garter around her thigh, white stockings on her legs.
I shifted, realizing I was naked. We were in a vehicle. A limo. There were other women dressed like her chatting around us. One had her boobs out. A young woman. A man suckled from her nipple. What was going on here?
"W-who are you?" I whimpered.
"Lynette Docea," she said. "A maid to Master Hayward."
"Where are we going?"
"Home." She smiled at me and stroked my back. "Just relax. You're safe from the darkness."
I closed my eyes and just... relaxed. The World had broken tonight. Evil had crept into it and killed poor Sister Shannon Esther. My mind kept replaying images of that thing. It was foul. My eyes flicked to a... painting.
It was there. That malevolent monster. Trapped in a painting.
Imprisoned.
The limo drove down a gravel driveway. I swallowed. It was so dark outside. I caught glimpse of a large manor. Master Hayward... Was this Hayward Manor? I had driven past it many times. It was full of local superstitions. Why had these maids come here? I had vague memories of them... fighting.
They had defeated that creature. How? What was going on?
"You have many questions, and we don't have all the answers, but we can find them," said Lynette.
I nodded.
The limo parked in a garage and the maids all began piling out. The maids and a young man in jeans and a t-shirt. He didn't at all fit in with these elegant, if slutty, women in their uniforms. Lynette helped me out. I leaned against her, wearing only my wimple and my shoes.
We were in a garage with other vehicles. Some black SUVs and a few normal cars. The garage door was open, leading onto the lawn with a path to the manor that the maids walked down. They moved with casual ease. The young man, Master Hayward, held the painting of that disgusting beast. We entered the manor through what appeared to be a backdoor into a dark ballroom.