Something jumped around the corner of the dumpster and yelled “A-hah! There you are!”
I screamed—couldn't be helped—and pumped the holy water at his face. Then I heard a horrible scream that competed with a sizzling sound, and the reek of sulfur assailed me so that I nearly gagged. I looked at the thing as it fell back. When it drew its hands away from his face, my need to gag came stronger as I stared at the wreckage of his face. Wherever the water had hit burned him as if I had acid instead of holy water in my gun. That's what he gets for scaring the pee out of me! The human mask that had been there was melting away in globs, leaving the greenish skin beneath, now filled with deep fissures. It was obvious this was a demon.
“Holy water! Aaaaahhhhh!” he cried. “I'll kill you for that!”
