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I apologize for the long delay but I got super bust after I posted the last chapter so I really hadn't had time to work on any of my stories, so now I like to present to you the fourth part of this episode.
(6:00 p.m.)
Dale Gribble was at the Heimlich County Medical Center visiting his friend Octavio who got attacked by an unknown creature. Octavio's condition for the time is still critical but his chances of survival have gone up by five percent, Dale stared at his friend who had his head, arms, torso, and legs wrapped in bandages, he was also wearing an oxygen mask and had an IV stuck into his arm.
"Don't worry, Octavio, I promise to hunt down the thing that did this to you." Dale vowed with a determination in his voice
"Maybe you need some assistants, Mr. Gribble." a voice said
Dale looked up to see a woman who was 5'8 with shoulder length blonde hair that she kept nice and tight in a ponytail wearing a stylish white jacket with matching skirt and a light pink shirt underneath plus a pair of white high heels. Dale also noticed that she has holding a brief case in her left hand while holding several files with her right.
"Who are you and how you know my real name?" Dale asked as he stood up from his seat
The woman placed her brief case on the ground and then reached into her pocket
"Allow me to introduce myself," the woman said as she pulled out an I.D., "my name is Selena Raptis, I'm the head of Vergil Min's campaigning committee."
"Seriously," Dale said with joy, "I love that guy, I totally support his anti-supernatural campaign."
"I know I've seen you at all the rallies," Selena acknowledged, "he's glad that he has the leader of R.A.T.S. on his side"
"He knows about R.A.T.S?"
"Yes, and he's hoping that if he wins the election he'll make your group the top supernatural exterminators in town."
"Wow," Dale shouted, "I'm honored but I'm afraid R.A.T.S is a little short on members for the past couple of months it's just been me and Octavio here, you see everyone else quit on me."
"Don't worry once Vergil wins I promise you'll have people signing up left and right," Selena said, "until then I need you to do Mr. Min a favor."
"What kind of favor?"
(6: 20 p.m.)
After searching all over town for the gargoyle Bobby had idea which was to return to the scene of the first murders, the warehouse.
"Why do you want to go there for," Berry questioned Bobby, "I doubt the thing will return to the scene of the crime."
"That's where the first murders happened, so I'm betting that we'll find some clue on how that creature came to Arlen." Bobby stated his reason for going to the warehouse
The Cadillac pulled up to the warehouse a few minutes later and luckily for them there wasn't a cop car in sight but by using his wolf vision, Bobby could see on the door that the cops of put up some yellow tape.
"There goes going in through the front door." Bobby said
"I guess there's only one way into the building."
Later inside the warehouse we see Berry as he attempts to climb in through the window with Bobby on the outside pushing him in. Once Berry was through Bobby grabbed the duffel bag and with perfect aim tossed it through followed by him as he used his claws to climb the wall and into the building.
"Where should we start?" Berry asked as they geared up
"Let's try by the loading dock," Bobby suggested, "it's the only way I think it could get in here."
They headed towards the loading dock with flashlight and weapons in hand. Berry had a crowbar while Bobby carried a sledgehammer over his shoulder which in their minds made sense since the gargoyle is a monster made of stone so their weapons should do some if not major damage. A foul odor came upon them as they got closer to the loading dock.
"Dear lord," Bobby shouted as he started to cough, "what is that smell?"
His question soon got answered for what they saw next horrified them. Laying on the ground just seven feet away was the remains of a middle-aged man who was wearing a dark blue jumpsuit with a patch that read the name Underwood who must like the first two victims worked here.
"I hate to say this but by the sign of fresh kill we know that it's here." Berry said with guilt for saying such an awful thing
"Keep your eyes open, it's around here somewhere."
They began to scan the surrounding area in hopes of finding the gargoyle before it finds and kills them. Suddenly there was a rattling coming from a small door next to the loading dock so Bobby and Berry ran up and got their weapons ready to strike, the moment the door flew open Berry swung the crowbar with all his might and hitting the thing that entered but instead of stone it struck metal. Berry and Bobby couldn't believe it when they noticed the object Berry hit wasn't a statue but a sword, a sword that belonged to one person, Jade.
"I had a feeling you idiots would show up here." Jade said as he lowered her sword then walked past them
What really surprised them was when Cameron came walking in after her.
"Cameron, what are you doing here?" Bobby asked
"I'm helping Jade fight this unknown monster." She informed
"First off we're after a gargoyle and secondly I can't believe she brought you into this."
Jade turned around when she heard Bobby say what they were after.
"Hold up, did you say that the thing killing people is a gargoyle?"
"Yeah, what do you know about them?"
"Nothing much, I know is that the Crusaders pretty much made them all inanimate." she explained
"So there's a way to turn it into an ordinary not murdering statue," Berry said with joy, "what is it?"
"I think it's a spell or a chant or something like that but problem is I don't know it."
"Then there is no way of stopping it?" Cameron spoke up stating her concern
They all stood there staring at each other waiting for one of them to think of something until Bobby finally thought of something.
"I say the plan is obvious," he informed, "we spilt up, keep our eyes open and when we see the gargoyle we smash its head off."
"Sounds like a plan to me," Jade said, "come on, Cameron."
She started to walk off but quickly realized that Cameron wasn't moving.
"What's wrong?"
"I'm just wondering, would it make sense if we all stick together," Cameron questioned, "you know safety in numbers and all."
"She has a point." Berry agreed
Jade however didn't agree as she began to walk away once again, this time with Cameron close behind.
"You sure we can handle this gargoyle by ourselves, I mean if the four of us works together then are chances of surviving is pretty good." Cameron explained
"May we please concentrate at the job at hand?" Jade asked ignoring what Cameron just said
Bobby and Berry were still by the loading dock deciding if they should follow Jade and Cameron or start searching for the gargoyle.
"When is this going to end?" Berry complained
"It'll end when we kill the gargoyle." Bobby said
"I don't mean that, I'm talking about you and Jade."
"Not now, Berry."
Bobby turned around to avoid discussing what he didn't want to talk about and luckily he found something that would change the subject.
"Hey, check this out." he said motioning with his flashlight
Berry looked towards the object that Bobby was pointing at which was a wooden crate with a label which had the name Ted Wasonasong on it along with the name of the place it came from, Prague.
"What would Ted Wasonasong order from Prague?" Berry wondered
They soon got there answer for when they looked inside they not only found a large amount of straw but claw marks on the inside.
"The gargoyle is here because of Ted Wasonasong?" Bobby shouted in confusion
"Maybe he wanted a new lawn ornament." Berry guessed
"Then he can go down to the garden store and get a damn lawn gnome like a normal person."
Berry was about to reply to that statement when he suddenly had a weird feeling come over him.
"Do you have the feeling that something is watching us?"
The boys slowly lifted up their heads and to their horror the gargoyle was standing right above then getting ready to attack.
"Frak." Berry shouted as he quickly jumped back
"Ok, Berry this is it, let's kill us a gargoyle." Bobby said preparing to strike
Then with a mighty swing the sledgehammer made contact with the gargoyles head.
"Take that you stone son of a bitch."
This victory was short-lived when Bobby removed the sledgehammer only to discover that it did no damage.
"That should have worked."
Berry took a deep breath before striking the gargoyle's arm but like with the sledgehammer the creature remained unharmed.
"Why didn't that work?"
"Let me give it a shot." someone said before the warehouse became filled with the sound of gunfire
Bobby managed to get him and Berry on the floor as several bullets struck the beast only to have the bullets ricochet off the monster's horns, head, and wings. The bullets stopped bouncing around which was a sign to say that it was safe, they got off the ground and to no surprise the person that fired the gun was Jade.
"Nice shooting, Lara Croft." Bobby sarcastically commented
"It was better than your hammer, Thor."
Cameron came running up from behind Jade holding her mace firmly in her hand.
"I can see by the look on your faces that our weapons don't work." Cameron pointed out
They all stood there trying to figure something out while keeping an eye on the gargoyle so it doesn't move.
"How are we suppose to kill something that can kill us when we're not looking but we can't kill it while we are looking at it?" Jade thought out loud
Right when Jade, Bobby, and Berry started to run out of ideas Cameron began to smile.
"What," Bobby, "please tell you got something."
"It's like you said we can't kill it while we look at it, so why don't we kill it when we're not looking at it?"
"I don't get how we can do that." Berry said not understanding what Cameron means
Jade however did understand what Cameron was trying to say and a smile appeared on her face.
"Berry. Cameron, you two come with me." Jade commanded as she ran off, "Bobby, make your self useful and keep an eye on that thing."
Cameron quickly followed her and after some doubt along with an okay for Bobby, Berry soon followed and joined the girls at the entrance to the ware house where he noticed that the light on Jade's and Cameron's goggles were out.
"Why did you turn off your night vision?" he asked
"The gargoyle is only stone when we're looking at it, so I figured that when it's not being looked at the stone becomes flesh like." Cameron explained
"Okay."
Jade could tell that Berry was still lost.
"In other words turn off your flashlight and tell Bobby to do that same."
Berry wasted no time turning off the flashlight leaving the only source of light in the room being Bobby's flashlight.
"Bobby, turn off your flashlight." Berry shouted
"Then close your eyes," Jade added, "the creature will still as long as it knows you're looking at it."
Bobby quickly turned off his flashlight and then closed his eyes hoping that the gargoyle won't attack him. That idea kept floating around in its head until he couldn't take it anymore and open his eyes and by using his wolf vision he saw that the creature had moved.
"It looks like the hunters have become the hunted." Bobby thought
Back towards the entrance Jade, Cameron, and Berry had carefully started walking towards Bobby when they heard boxes being knocked over from their left.
"Damn it, it's faster than I thought." Jade said as she tightened the grip on her sword
Cameron and Berry also prepared themselves for an attack as did Bobby who had just morphed into his wolf form but kept his eyes closed only relying on his advanced hearing to search for the gargoyle. The search didn't take long for all of them heard something moving up in the rafters.
"Get ready." Jade instructed as they continued walking
Bobby was making his way back to the others while trying to use his nose to find the gargoyle by smell but the only scent he could pick up were the ones that were coming from his friends. Suddenly something knocked Bobby on his back and pinned him to the ground, right away Bobby knew it was the gargoyle and tried to break free from the creature's grasp which to his surprise he managed to get his arms off the ground but the gargoyle started to fight back by placing one foot on Bobby's chest and it's talons sunk into Bobby's flesh. Bobby let out a painful howl that altered others that he was at that moment fighting the gargoyle.
"Bobby," Berry shouted, "don't worry, we're on are way."
Berry ran towards the area where he hoped that the howl came from and Cameron soon followed leaving Jade by herself deciding if she should help Bobby or not. She tightened the grip on the handle of her sword, took a deep breath and ran off after the others.
I hate to do this but I'm afraid I have to break this episode into five parts, don't worry for part five will be up either later tonight or sometime tomorrow, so stay tuned. P.S. I really appreciate all the positive PMs I've been receiving it's things like that is what keeps me typing this amazing series, so I'll be looking forward to more reviews and PMs. Thank You!