Jesters of the Dead

Frion and his friends successfully recovered the Viers Center refugees while Sunder and Shyrin fought Edgemoth. Meanwhile, Dr. Eins held off Dr. Decivel, preventing her from interfering with Valiesha's campaign.

Firaga and Valiesha joined the rebels and Shima Enagas in the large basement, holding their nose from the putrid smell of blood. The girls and birds looked across the pillars inscribed with curved satanic language. They found mountains of male corpses of graduated students across the hallways.

So many graduated, believing Senri would help them become great men, only to work hard in vain. Millions of dreams to live a wonderful life with a woman shattered just because Senri couldn't live the married life she wanted.

Within the bloodbath were fat cyborg marsupials with third eyes that munched on the male bodies. The robotic wombats and possums turned and gasped at the angry Enaga girls, for they knew they were in deep trouble.

"Kill them all," Valiesha ordered the rebels.

The rebels immediately got to work, drawing flamethrowers to burn the marsupials. The wombats panicked and struggled to move their fattened bellies, making it easy for the Shima Enagas to chase and peck them. The three-eyed possums were terrified of Firaga, hiding within the corpse mounds until she yanked them out by the tails.

Valiesha and Firaga gunned the marsupials down as they spotted Senri from afar. She stood in front of Jezebel's altar and the seated Arkanis. Senri dragged Chirus onto the floor, who was cuffed by the hands and feet and chain-gagged to make sure he wasn't noisy.

"Chirus!" Valiesha kicked the cowardly marsupials out of her way.

"Look, Arkanis!" Senri yanked Chirus by the chain and presented him to her undead husband. "He will make you whole now! Isn't that great? We can finally be together again!"

Arkanis simply looked at Senri in silence before turning to the scared Chirus. He didn't have enough nerves and bones to move well and no mouth to speak. Arkanis' eyeballs ached from the lack of eyelids, but they still could see Chirus.

He wore a white coat, just like Arkanis did when he was still alive as a doctor. Arkanis knew Chirus was not only handsome but also hardworking and a very good man to which girl married him.

He doesn't deserve to die. None of them do.

Arkanis weakly lifted his hand in hopes of communicating, but as always, Senri never paid attention. She forced him onto the altar and began the incantation to summon Jezebel.

Valiesha and Firaga fired at Senri, but a body lunged in front to block the fire. It was an undead student with a strange cybernetic being locked on its head, a Vizer Skull. The machine had a metallic head, two cone-shaped horns, and the smiley face of a jester.

Under its head was a bear trap mouth with its teeth sunk into the student's forehead. At its joints between the mouth's maxilla and mandible were rotating corkscrews that drilled within the victim's brain.

"L-let me die," The undead boy cried in tears. "J-just let me die!"

Hordes of reanimated dead men were forced to stand under the command of other Vizer Skulls who laughed like hyenas. The undead boys begged the girls to put them out of their misery. Their cries competed with the hyena chortles from the jester faces of the Vizer Skulls. Hearing them made the girls sob.

"Y-you can shoot us if easier..."

"D-don't mind us, please... we understand..."

"W-we believe in you all... y-you can beat Jezebel! We know it!"

The Vizer Skulls opened their coned horns to reveal Tesla coils that fired thunderbolts at the rebels. Holding back tears, Valiesha ordered the rebels to target the clown faces of the Vizer Skulls. While dodging lightning from the Tesla coils, the rebels shot the heads of the contraptions. The Shima Enaga flew onto the smiling faces, pecking them until they cracked. The obnoxious laughter slowly dwindled as the Vizer Skulls dropped dead one after another, setting each boy free to die peacefully.

Firaga tackled the boy with the last Vizer Skull. The monster nervously chuckled until Firaga grabbed its face and punched it. Angry and annoyed with its giggling, she repeatedly punched the machine's smiling clown face until it stopped laughing and died. Firaga picked up the boy's face, who smiled at her before dying.

"We'll make everything right. We promise. Please rest in peace," Firaga tearfully closed his eyes.

"Senri! What's wrong with you? What is dead should remain dead!" Valiesha fired her pistols at the Matriarch.

Senri summoned her green scepter, which made a magic shield to block the attack. The basement rumbled as a dark mist enveloped in front of the altar. The horned wendigo named Jezebel howled at the Enaga girls, blowing them back.

"My dear, Senri. You only awakened me to be destroyed by those women of Yahweh?" The wendigo pointed an accusing finger at Senri.

"N-no! They followed me, but don't worry. They are weak!" Senri stuttered. "Look who I brought!"

Jezebel then looked at the blue-eyed Chirus, who shuddered from the emaciated being that sniffed him. Chirus wanted to scream and run, but his chains prevented him from doing anything.

"So, he's the final sacrifice indeed for Arkanis to be whole," Jezebel stroked her long skeletal fingers on Chirus' face and black hair. "I can tell Chirus, indeed, is a delicious one. I commend you for keeping your promise, Senri."

"Chirus! No!" Valiesha ran as fast as she could, firing at Jezebel.

Senri blocked the attack with a magic shield thanks to her scepter. Valiesha tried punching Senri in the face, but the scepter's shield repelled her. As Jezebel smacked her lips and grabbed Chirus, someone lunged onto her arm and made her let go of him. Everyone gasped, witnessing Arkanis jump from his chair to clumsily push Chirus off Jezebel's grip. As he landed with Chirus, his leg bones shattered into pieces.

"Chirus!" Valiesha ran to untie his shackles. "Firaga! Take Jezebel down!"

Firaga slapped the Senri out of the way with her shotgun stock and led the rebels to charge and blast the Wendigo with everything they had. Jezebel howled, covering her face from the explosions as the swarm of Shima Enagas tackled her.

"Valiesh!"

"Chirus!"

The two hugged in tears as Senri stomped towards Arkanis, who lay with half a body in severe pain. He used every ounce of strength he had to save Chirus.

Be happy together, Valiesha, Chirus. Arkanis fearfully faced an angry Senri. I'm about to get it now.

"Arkanis, what was that?" Senri stomped her scepter. "I was so close to bringing you back to life, and now, you put me back to square one!"

Valiesha and Chirus looked as Arkanis took on Senri's scolding.

"You know the trouble I went through to piece you together? Don't you?" Senri slapped her husband before forcefully yanking him by his ear. "It was one thing when you got sick and left me! Now this?"

"Senri!" Chirus shouted. "It's not his fault he got sick. It can happen to anyone!"

"Senri, you may have taken away his ability to talk, but I can see he isn't happy to be dragged from his grave!" Valiesha pointed her pistols at the Matriarch.

"I married Arkanis, the perfect doctor husband, believing I could live happily ever after!" Senri's cat pupils glared at Chirus and Valiesha. "But he died, and my friends laughed at me. Do you understand the humiliation I went through? Arkanis had no right to die early!"

Suddenly, Senri's scepter wrapped around her waist. Her legs coiled into a giant serpent's tail as her hands sharpened into claws. Her jaws enlarged with triangular fangs like a Cheshire cat. Chirus, Valiesha, and Arkanis shuddered at the sight of Senri morphing into a lamia.

"Do you know what I did to the friends that laughed at me?" Senri grinned her Cheshire cat fangs, flicking a long snake tongue. "I took their husbands and recycled them for body parts for my sweet Arkanis! It serves them right! If God wants to deny me a happy marriage, I'll take everyone else's to recreate mine!"

Valiesha huffed. "Now, Arkanis sees who you truly are, Senri. He deserves someone far better than you!"

Valiesha fired her pistols at Senri, who slithered and slashed with her claws. While Chirus comforted and bandaged Arkanis, Jezebel shook the Shima Enagas off her. She chanted a spell to summon a long red dress made of blood and muscles to cover her curved body. With her horns breaking into six horns, Jezebel had herself dressed in her bloody sorceress outfit to battle Firaga and the rebels.

"I offered you women beautiful technology, did I not?" Jezebel twiddled her skeletal fingers. "I taught the power to mold relationships to your liking. Why is it that you oppose me?"

"Simple, we don't like your world where men are controlled like puppets for our liking!" Firaga loaded her shotgun as the Shima Enagas and rebels surrounded Jezebel. "What you offer is no relationship at all. Only the weak, like the Skelengels, embrace it!"

"Very well then. I was hoping to halt the reproduction of Yahweh's children by distorting the woman's view of men," Jezebel lifted her bony hand to summon a deck of tarot cards. "I see there are still women who are still loyal to Yahweh's design of the union between men and women. I'll have to cease Yahweh's children from multiplying myself!"