Outside of the Venus Twister
The outside of the Venus Twister is literally covered with bats, clawing, flapping, gnawing and trying like hell to get inside. Everybody listens to the bats scratching and clawing all along the walls, the roof and at the front door. Everyone is scared shitless and nobody has the slightest idea what to do next. The door begins to crack and splinter, little claws poke their way through. 'Give me a hand!' Faye puts on her warmer clothes, runs to a table top. She grabs it and covers the area the bats are trying to claw through. The others grab other items to help secure and barricade the door. As the survivors are panickedly boarding up the door and the windows, a dead outlaw that the vampires fed on pops open his yellow eyes. He sits up and sees all the furious activity. Everyone's so busy they don't notice their new friend. The dead outlaw vampire sets his sights on Edward, who's putting a board into place. He springs to his feet and pounces on her, just as Carlos turns from across the room in her direction. 'Watch out, Ed!' The outlaw vampire grabs Edward from behind. She lets out a scream. The vampire holds her close to him in a bear hug, but she's around so much he can't get a clear bite. The others hear the scream and look toward Edward. Carlos, Big Gordon's bat in hand, is halfway to the rescue. As the outlaw vampire opens his mouth to take a juicy bite out of Edward's shoulder, Edward rams her head back, hitting the vampire in the mouth and breaking his fangs. He releases her and spits out his teeth just as Jobin runs up and swings the baseball bat upside the vampire's head, breaking the bat in two and sending the vampire to the floor. As the vampire lies on the floor seeing stars, Jobin grabs one of the broken ends of the bat and shoves it in the vampire's heart. He dies and bursts into flames. At that point, three other dead victims rise to a setting position. Carlos grabs a chair and throws it to the ground, breaking it. He grabs the four legs. 'Goddamn fuckin' vampires.' Carlos mumbled to himself. The bounty hunter has turned into Captain Carlos, Vampire Hunter. He stakes two of the vampires as they get to their feet. Both spew green blood, scream, die and burst into flames. The third, an outlaw vampire wearing a cat cap, smacks Carlos in the mouth, which sends the bounty hunter for a loop. As the outlaw runs toward the fallen Carlos, Julia jumps on his back from behind. Both of them go tumbling into a stack of wine cases. Carlos runs over and grabs Julia by the hand, pulling her up and out of the way. The outlaw is lying in a pile of broken bottles and wine. Carlos raises his stake as the outlaw dies drives it in the vampire's black heart. the outlaw dies and bursts into flames, which hits the wine, starting a giant fire. Jobin and Faye stop barricading and run to the fire. 'We'll put this out. You go stake rest of these fucks!' Jobin said to Carlos.
'Way ahead of you, Jobin.' he said.
'What's your name, girly?' Carlos asked Edward.
'Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV, what's yours?'
'Carlos. Pleased to meet you. Edward, let's now stake these blood-sucker fuckers.' Edward and Carlos give each other a high five and go to work staking the dead bodies. Faye and Jobin beat down the fire with their jackets and whatever else is at hand. A hole begins to appear where a window had been plastered over. Little claws scrape their way through. Julia stands in front of the window. 'Guys, we got a problem!' Julia yelled out. Spike, who is barricading doors and windows, looks in Julia's direction. The hole in the plaster cracks open and out pops a little, fleshy vampire bat/rat head, which is squeaking and hissing it's head off, tries to squeeze it's body through the newly formed hole. Spike, gun in hand, runs to the window. He points the .45, point-blank range at the head of the bat/rat. The bat/rat sees this, makes an "oh shit" face, and yanks his head back through the hole. Spike was ready to fire, he lowers his gun in bewilderment, when...WHAM! The bat/rat bursts through the hole, like a shot out of a cannon, hitting Spike in the gut and sending him flying, landing hard on his back. Once Spike hits the ground, the bat-thing lickity-split runs up Spike's body to his juggler. Spike's hand grabs the bat's neck, and tires to push it away. But the bat-thing has it's claws dug in Spike's clothes. The bat-thing is just inches from Spike's face. It's mouth is snapping. 'Get this fuckin' bastard off of me!' Jobin leaves Faye with the fire, comes from behind and grabs the bat-thing and yanks it off of Spike. Carlos and Julia are a green, bloody mess from their preventative staking of dead vampires. Carlos kneels by a dead vampire, raising the stake in his hand to spear him. The body springs up and bites Carlos on the arm. Red blood squirts all over. Carlos screams, then brings the stake down in the body's chest. It dies, burns and turns into goo. Carlos holds his bit arm and wraps it with a piece of his shirt. He quickly looks around to see if anybody saw him get bit. Nobody saw it, everybody was too busy. Jobin holds the flapping, fighting, snapping bat-thing in front of him arm's length. He struggles with it for awhile, then...Bashes it's head against the bar. The first bash takes some fight out of the little motherfucker, so... Jobin bashes his head against the bar six or seven times. He then throws the bat-thing on the bar, turns it over, garbs a pencil in a cup next to the register, and rams it in the bat-thing's heart. The bat-thing coughs and dies. There's a flash of flames, followed by a pile of goo. Carlos and Julia have covered up a hole in the plastered window with a table while Jobin, Edward and Spike wrestle with the bat-thing. Faye has put out the fire. Everybody comes together, exhausted, and takes a breather. Outside, the bats continue to try and claw their way in. 'Is everybody okay?' Faye asked as everyone muttered "yes"
'Okay, does anybody know what's going on?' Faye asked again.
'Yeah, I know what's going on. We got a bunch of fucking vampires outside trying to get inside and suck our fucking blood! That's it, plain and simple. And I don't wanna hear any bullshit about "I don't believe in vampires" because I don't fucking believe in vampires either. But I-do believe in my own two fucking eyes, and with my two eyes I saw fucking vampires! Now, does everybody agree we are dealing with vampires.' Spike answered and everybody agrees. 'You too, Faye?' he asked her.
'I'm like you. I don't believe in what I saw.'
'Good for you. Now, since we all believe we're dealing with vampires, what do we know about vampires? Crosses hurt vampires. Do you have a cross?'
'No cross on me.' Faye said.
'Ok, in other words, hell no.'
'What are you talking about? We got crosses all over the fucking place.' Julia said and explained.
'All you gotta do is put two sticks together and you got a cross.'
'He's right. Vampire Hunters do that all the time.'
'I don't know about that. In order for it to have any power, I think it's gotta be an official crucifix. What's an official cross? Some piece tin made in Pluto? What makes that official If a cross works against vampires, it's not the cross itself, it's what the cross represents. The cross is a symbol of holiness.'
'Okay, I'll buy that. So we got crosses covered, moving right along, what else?' Spike asked.
'Wooden stakes in the heart been working pretty good so far.' Carlos said.
'Garlic, holy water, sunlight... I forget, does silver do anything to a vampire?' Jobin asked.
'That's fucking werewolves.' Edward said.
'I know silver bullets are werewolves. But I'm pretty sure silver has some sort of effect on vampires.'
'Does anybody have any silver?' Julia asked.
'No.' 'Then who cares.'
'When's sunrise?'
'About two hours from now.' Faye said as she looks at her watch.
'So all we have to do is get by for a few more hours and then we can walk right out the front door.' Julia said as she removed her shades.
'Yeah, that's true, But I doubt our barricades, that,those plastered windows and these walls will last two more hours with those bat fucks fucking with 'em.' Jobin said.
'Has anybody here read a real book about vampires, as in Dracula or Meier Link, or are we just remembering what a movie said? I mean a real book.' Faye asked everyone.
'You mean like a novelization book?' Carlos asked.
'I take it the answer's no. Okay then, what do we know about these vampires? Aside from they're thirsty.' Spike said. 'Well. one thing, they might got super human strength, but you can hurt them.'
'Yeah, that bottle upside the head of Hilda didn't kill her, but it didn't feel too good either. Another thing, you try and ram a broken chair leg in a human, you better be one strong son of a bitch. The human body is one rough-tough machine. But these vamps got soft bodies. The texture of their skin is softer, mushier. You can push shit right through them. Conceivably, if you hit one hard enough, you could take their fucking head off.' Carlos said.
'Actually our best weapon against these satanic cocksuckers is the cross, wooden stakes, and Faye Valentine. As far as God's concerned, we might just as well be a piece of fucking shit. But she's one of the girls. Only one problem, her faith what it used to be.' Faye kicks Spike in the mouth, sending him to the floor.
'I've had enough of your damn taunts.' Faye said as Spike looks up from the floor.
'I'm not taunting you, Faye. We need you. A faithless vampire killer doesn't mean shit to us. But a girl who can stop these fuckers can grab a cross, shove it in these monsters' asses. She can bless the tap water and turn it into a weapon,' Spike rises and continues.
'I know why you lost your faith. How could true holiness exist if your love ones can be taken away from you and your friends? Now, I always said God can kiss my fucking ass Well, I change my lifetime tune about thirty minutes ago because I know, without a doubt, what's out there trying to get in here is pure evil straight. And if there is a hell, and those monsters are from it, there's got to be a heaven. Now which are you, a faithless bounty hunter or a mean, motherfucking vampire hunter?' Faye laugh at that. So does everybody else. Faye sticks out her hand and shakes Spike's hand.
'I'm a mean, mmmmmmmmm vampire hunter.' The laughter and good humor passes quickly and the only sound to be heard is that of the bats gnawing and clawing. It immediately reminds the group of the deep, deep shit they're in. I don't know if I can take two hours of that noise. Julia said as Jobin goes into his monologue, Carlos is having a hot flash. He can't hear anything. He's looking at Jobin speaking, but he doesn't hear any sound. Then he hears a deep, male voice say: 'Thirst.'
"Who the fuck was that?" he thinks to himself. He turns around: nobody's there. No one else in the group seems to hear it, a female voice seductively says: 'Thirst.'
'Stop fucking saying that!' Carlos shouted. 'Thirst.'
'That bite weren't nothing. It just hurts like a son of a bitch, that's all.' It barely punched the skin. Carlos looks at Jobin, who's acting out his story. The outlaw is pantomiming fighting and slashing. He's describing all the while, but they can't do anything. All Carlos hears are many voices, male, female, children saying; 'Thirst... Thirst... Thirst...' Carlos begins looking at the other members of the group in a thirsty way. He stares at each of their necks, closer and closer until he can see the veins on Jobin's neck actually pulsating, throbbing, beckoning to him. Carlos has turned into a vampire. 'THIRST!' Carlos lets out a hideous cry. Jobin screams as Carlos grabs hold of him and bites into his neck. The group tries to pull the two men apart. Edward gets his arm around Carlos' neck and tries pulling. Carlos takes his teeth out of the outlaw's neck in sinks them in Edward's arm. Edward screams and let's go. Spike, Julia, and Faye react to Edward being bit. Carlos grabs Edward and tosses him effortlessly over the bar, crashing into a shelf full of wine and whiskey bottles. Jobin hops around the room, mad as a hornet, holding his bleeding neck. 'I been bit! He fuckin' bit me!' Carlos punches Spike in the face, dropping him like a sack of apples. He smacks the shit out of Julia. She goes flying into a table. Carlos turns, seeing Jobin breaking off a big table leg. Jobin looks at the big vamp. 'You're dead, motherfucker! You're gonna bite me! You just turned into a vampire, asshole!' Jobin said to Carlos. 'What are you gonna do about it?' Jobin, table leg in hand, runs, screaming his head off, straight at Carlos. Carlos' nostrails flare. He raises his fist and pulls it back, so he can really haul off. Jobin, top speed, stake raised, screaming. Carlos lets loose with his punch, Spike, Julia and Faye look up from the floor. Edward rises from behind the bar. Jobin's face collides with Carlos' fist. Carlos hits Jobin so hard it lifts the biker off the ground and propels him through the air. Spike sees where Carlos is heading and says: 'Oh, Shit!' Jobin, in mid-air, hits the barricaded, plastered over window and crashes through it. Carlos lets loos with a maniacal laugh. Hundreds of bat-things fly into the bar. Spike grabs Faye and Julia by the hand and runs for the back room. Behind the bar, Edward grabs two pieces of wood from off the ground. Ten vampires are in hot pursuit of Spike, Faye and Julia, who are running for their lives. They get to the door of the back room, whip it open, dive in and slam it behind them. An ugly, fleshy vampire manges to get it's head caught in the door as it closes, Julia and Faye push on the door as hard as they can. The vampire's head, which is inside, screams, howls and snaps in fury. Spike turns the bat/vampire in the door. He sticks his .45 in it's big mouth. 'You wanna suck something, suck on this!' He fires four shots that blow the bat vampire's head all over the wall. 'We have to go for Edward!' Julia yelled.
'Edward's dead.'
'Noooo!' She spins and grabs the door knob, ready to fling the door and help her friend. Faye grabs her and pushes her up against the wall.
'He's right, Julia. Edward's dead! She was too far away. If flinging that door and filling this room with those vampires would save him, I'd fling it. The only thing it'll do is turn us into one of them. She needs our help!' Spike said.
'She's beyond our help. You saw her get bit. I saw her get bit. We all saw it. You can't help her. I've got no one left to lose but you. I can't be alone again. We're sticking together, Spike.' Just then Spike hears Edward's voice booming from the bar room. Edward, holding a cross made out of two sticks and reciting an appropriate verse, is keeping the vampires at bay. But, as Spike predicted, it is the shining power of Faye Valentine's restored faith that is her mightiest weapon. Edward is making her way through the vampires, toward the back door. A lot of the bats have turned into bat/devil/human creatures. The creatures stand at the edge of Edward's force field of holiness. Many vampires fly around the bar like mad, whirling dervishes. A cluster of vampires over above and in front of Edward. They all growl and hiss at the hacker. For every one step forward Edward takes, the vampires take one step back. Edward recites the verse in a threatening, mean, motherfucking, vampire hunter tone. As she speaks with authority and strength, she sees Jobin lying on the ground, vampires on him like ants on a candy bar. But Edward is too much in control to let even this repugnant sight trip her up. 'Open the door.' Edward has backed herself up by the door. The door flies open. Edward jumps inside. The door slams shut. Edward hugs Faye and Julia. As she hugs them, her arm is full of blood. When she releases them, they can't help but notice. 'Did he..?' Spike asked.
'Yep.' Edward answered. Spike explodes, knocking over boxes, busting chairs, tipping over tables and cussing a blue streak.
'Fuck, piss, shit! Motherfucking vampires! Motherfucking vampires! Goddamn motherfucking vampires!' Spike runs over to the barricaded door and yells to the vampires on the other side. 'You all are gonna fucking die! I'm gonna fucking kill every last one of you godless fucking pieces of shit!'
'You bet your sweet ass you are, and I'm gonna help you do it. But we ain't got much time.' Faye said to Spike. Julia cries, knowing what's happened to Edward.
'You gonna be okay. aren't you, Edward?'
'No, I'm not. I've been bit. In effect, I'm already dead. listen to me. I just want you to know you've made me proud all your lives. But never more so than tonight. And I wish we could sit here and cry till I pass on, but we can't. Because I'm not going to pass on. I'm going to turn into a monster. And when I do, I'm going to be dangerous. Now, I'd say in the next twenty or thirty minutes our friends outside will bust in this door. And I'll probably turn into a vampire within the hour. Now, you have two choices. You can wait for me to turn, then deal with me, then wait for them to burst inside here and the three of you will deal with them. Or, we can kick open that door and the four of us can hit them with everything we have, and carve a path right through them to front entrance. But if we are gonna go at them, we gotta go at them now. I confused them, I scared them, I took them off guard. But they are going to get unconfused, they are going to get unscared, they are going to get together and they are going to hit that door like a ton of bricks. And when that moment arrives, we gotta be ready.' Edward said to Spike, Faye and Julia. Faye sees that the back room is pretty damn big and filled with boxes and crates.
'What the hell is all this?' Julia asked.
'My guess is that this big dive's been feeding on galaxy road waits like bounty hunters and outlaws for a long time. This is probably some of the shipments they stole off the cargo ships.'
'Well, I say let's tear this place apart for weapons. So when they burst through that door, we will make them wish they never did. I don't give a shit about living or dying anymore. I just want to send as many of these demons back to hell as I can.'
'As you wish, Spike.'
The outside of the Venus Twister is literally covered with bats, clawing, flapping, gnawing and trying like hell to get inside. Everybody listens to the bats scratching and clawing all along the walls, the roof and at the front door. Everyone is scared shitless and nobody has the slightest idea what to do next. The door begins to crack and splinter, little claws poke their way through. 'Give me a hand!' Faye puts on her warmer clothes, runs to a table top. She grabs it and covers the area the bats are trying to claw through. The others grab other items to help secure and barricade the door. As the survivors are panickedly boarding up the door and the windows, a dead outlaw that the vampires fed on pops open his yellow eyes. He sits up and sees all the furious activity. Everyone's so busy they don't notice their new friend. The dead outlaw vampire sets his sights on Edward, who's putting a board into place. He springs to his feet and pounces on her, just as Carlos turns from across the room in her direction. 'Watch out, Ed!' The outlaw vampire grabs Edward from behind. She lets out a scream. The vampire holds her close to him in a bear hug, but she's around so much he can't get a clear bite. The others hear the scream and look toward Edward. Carlos, Big Gordon's bat in hand, is halfway to the rescue. As the outlaw vampire opens his mouth to take a juicy bite out of Edward's shoulder, Edward rams her head back, hitting the vampire in the mouth and breaking his fangs. He releases her and spits out his teeth just as Jobin runs up and swings the baseball bat upside the vampire's head, breaking the bat in two and sending the vampire to the floor. As the vampire lies on the floor seeing stars, Jobin grabs one of the broken ends of the bat and shoves it in the vampire's heart. He dies and bursts into flames. At that point, three other dead victims rise to a setting position. Carlos grabs a chair and throws it to the ground, breaking it. He grabs the four legs. 'Goddamn fuckin' vampires.' Carlos mumbled to himself. The bounty hunter has turned into Captain Carlos, Vampire Hunter. He stakes two of the vampires as they get to their feet. Both spew green blood, scream, die and burst into flames. The third, an outlaw vampire wearing a cat cap, smacks Carlos in the mouth, which sends the bounty hunter for a loop. As the outlaw runs toward the fallen Carlos, Julia jumps on his back from behind. Both of them go tumbling into a stack of wine cases. Carlos runs over and grabs Julia by the hand, pulling her up and out of the way. The outlaw is lying in a pile of broken bottles and wine. Carlos raises his stake as the outlaw dies drives it in the vampire's black heart. the outlaw dies and bursts into flames, which hits the wine, starting a giant fire. Jobin and Faye stop barricading and run to the fire. 'We'll put this out. You go stake rest of these fucks!' Jobin said to Carlos.
'Way ahead of you, Jobin.' he said.
'What's your name, girly?' Carlos asked Edward.
'Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV, what's yours?'
'Carlos. Pleased to meet you. Edward, let's now stake these blood-sucker fuckers.' Edward and Carlos give each other a high five and go to work staking the dead bodies. Faye and Jobin beat down the fire with their jackets and whatever else is at hand. A hole begins to appear where a window had been plastered over. Little claws scrape their way through. Julia stands in front of the window. 'Guys, we got a problem!' Julia yelled out. Spike, who is barricading doors and windows, looks in Julia's direction. The hole in the plaster cracks open and out pops a little, fleshy vampire bat/rat head, which is squeaking and hissing it's head off, tries to squeeze it's body through the newly formed hole. Spike, gun in hand, runs to the window. He points the .45, point-blank range at the head of the bat/rat. The bat/rat sees this, makes an "oh shit" face, and yanks his head back through the hole. Spike was ready to fire, he lowers his gun in bewilderment, when...WHAM! The bat/rat bursts through the hole, like a shot out of a cannon, hitting Spike in the gut and sending him flying, landing hard on his back. Once Spike hits the ground, the bat-thing lickity-split runs up Spike's body to his juggler. Spike's hand grabs the bat's neck, and tires to push it away. But the bat-thing has it's claws dug in Spike's clothes. The bat-thing is just inches from Spike's face. It's mouth is snapping. 'Get this fuckin' bastard off of me!' Jobin leaves Faye with the fire, comes from behind and grabs the bat-thing and yanks it off of Spike. Carlos and Julia are a green, bloody mess from their preventative staking of dead vampires. Carlos kneels by a dead vampire, raising the stake in his hand to spear him. The body springs up and bites Carlos on the arm. Red blood squirts all over. Carlos screams, then brings the stake down in the body's chest. It dies, burns and turns into goo. Carlos holds his bit arm and wraps it with a piece of his shirt. He quickly looks around to see if anybody saw him get bit. Nobody saw it, everybody was too busy. Jobin holds the flapping, fighting, snapping bat-thing in front of him arm's length. He struggles with it for awhile, then...Bashes it's head against the bar. The first bash takes some fight out of the little motherfucker, so... Jobin bashes his head against the bar six or seven times. He then throws the bat-thing on the bar, turns it over, garbs a pencil in a cup next to the register, and rams it in the bat-thing's heart. The bat-thing coughs and dies. There's a flash of flames, followed by a pile of goo. Carlos and Julia have covered up a hole in the plastered window with a table while Jobin, Edward and Spike wrestle with the bat-thing. Faye has put out the fire. Everybody comes together, exhausted, and takes a breather. Outside, the bats continue to try and claw their way in. 'Is everybody okay?' Faye asked as everyone muttered "yes"
'Okay, does anybody know what's going on?' Faye asked again.
'Yeah, I know what's going on. We got a bunch of fucking vampires outside trying to get inside and suck our fucking blood! That's it, plain and simple. And I don't wanna hear any bullshit about "I don't believe in vampires" because I don't fucking believe in vampires either. But I-do believe in my own two fucking eyes, and with my two eyes I saw fucking vampires! Now, does everybody agree we are dealing with vampires.' Spike answered and everybody agrees. 'You too, Faye?' he asked her.
'I'm like you. I don't believe in what I saw.'
'Good for you. Now, since we all believe we're dealing with vampires, what do we know about vampires? Crosses hurt vampires. Do you have a cross?'
'No cross on me.' Faye said.
'Ok, in other words, hell no.'
'What are you talking about? We got crosses all over the fucking place.' Julia said and explained.
'All you gotta do is put two sticks together and you got a cross.'
'He's right. Vampire Hunters do that all the time.'
'I don't know about that. In order for it to have any power, I think it's gotta be an official crucifix. What's an official cross? Some piece tin made in Pluto? What makes that official If a cross works against vampires, it's not the cross itself, it's what the cross represents. The cross is a symbol of holiness.'
'Okay, I'll buy that. So we got crosses covered, moving right along, what else?' Spike asked.
'Wooden stakes in the heart been working pretty good so far.' Carlos said.
'Garlic, holy water, sunlight... I forget, does silver do anything to a vampire?' Jobin asked.
'That's fucking werewolves.' Edward said.
'I know silver bullets are werewolves. But I'm pretty sure silver has some sort of effect on vampires.'
'Does anybody have any silver?' Julia asked.
'No.' 'Then who cares.'
'When's sunrise?'
'About two hours from now.' Faye said as she looks at her watch.
'So all we have to do is get by for a few more hours and then we can walk right out the front door.' Julia said as she removed her shades.
'Yeah, that's true, But I doubt our barricades, that,those plastered windows and these walls will last two more hours with those bat fucks fucking with 'em.' Jobin said.
'Has anybody here read a real book about vampires, as in Dracula or Meier Link, or are we just remembering what a movie said? I mean a real book.' Faye asked everyone.
'You mean like a novelization book?' Carlos asked.
'I take it the answer's no. Okay then, what do we know about these vampires? Aside from they're thirsty.' Spike said. 'Well. one thing, they might got super human strength, but you can hurt them.'
'Yeah, that bottle upside the head of Hilda didn't kill her, but it didn't feel too good either. Another thing, you try and ram a broken chair leg in a human, you better be one strong son of a bitch. The human body is one rough-tough machine. But these vamps got soft bodies. The texture of their skin is softer, mushier. You can push shit right through them. Conceivably, if you hit one hard enough, you could take their fucking head off.' Carlos said.
'Actually our best weapon against these satanic cocksuckers is the cross, wooden stakes, and Faye Valentine. As far as God's concerned, we might just as well be a piece of fucking shit. But she's one of the girls. Only one problem, her faith what it used to be.' Faye kicks Spike in the mouth, sending him to the floor.
'I've had enough of your damn taunts.' Faye said as Spike looks up from the floor.
'I'm not taunting you, Faye. We need you. A faithless vampire killer doesn't mean shit to us. But a girl who can stop these fuckers can grab a cross, shove it in these monsters' asses. She can bless the tap water and turn it into a weapon,' Spike rises and continues.
'I know why you lost your faith. How could true holiness exist if your love ones can be taken away from you and your friends? Now, I always said God can kiss my fucking ass Well, I change my lifetime tune about thirty minutes ago because I know, without a doubt, what's out there trying to get in here is pure evil straight. And if there is a hell, and those monsters are from it, there's got to be a heaven. Now which are you, a faithless bounty hunter or a mean, motherfucking vampire hunter?' Faye laugh at that. So does everybody else. Faye sticks out her hand and shakes Spike's hand.
'I'm a mean, mmmmmmmmm vampire hunter.' The laughter and good humor passes quickly and the only sound to be heard is that of the bats gnawing and clawing. It immediately reminds the group of the deep, deep shit they're in. I don't know if I can take two hours of that noise. Julia said as Jobin goes into his monologue, Carlos is having a hot flash. He can't hear anything. He's looking at Jobin speaking, but he doesn't hear any sound. Then he hears a deep, male voice say: 'Thirst.'
"Who the fuck was that?" he thinks to himself. He turns around: nobody's there. No one else in the group seems to hear it, a female voice seductively says: 'Thirst.'
'Stop fucking saying that!' Carlos shouted. 'Thirst.'
'That bite weren't nothing. It just hurts like a son of a bitch, that's all.' It barely punched the skin. Carlos looks at Jobin, who's acting out his story. The outlaw is pantomiming fighting and slashing. He's describing all the while, but they can't do anything. All Carlos hears are many voices, male, female, children saying; 'Thirst... Thirst... Thirst...' Carlos begins looking at the other members of the group in a thirsty way. He stares at each of their necks, closer and closer until he can see the veins on Jobin's neck actually pulsating, throbbing, beckoning to him. Carlos has turned into a vampire. 'THIRST!' Carlos lets out a hideous cry. Jobin screams as Carlos grabs hold of him and bites into his neck. The group tries to pull the two men apart. Edward gets his arm around Carlos' neck and tries pulling. Carlos takes his teeth out of the outlaw's neck in sinks them in Edward's arm. Edward screams and let's go. Spike, Julia, and Faye react to Edward being bit. Carlos grabs Edward and tosses him effortlessly over the bar, crashing into a shelf full of wine and whiskey bottles. Jobin hops around the room, mad as a hornet, holding his bleeding neck. 'I been bit! He fuckin' bit me!' Carlos punches Spike in the face, dropping him like a sack of apples. He smacks the shit out of Julia. She goes flying into a table. Carlos turns, seeing Jobin breaking off a big table leg. Jobin looks at the big vamp. 'You're dead, motherfucker! You're gonna bite me! You just turned into a vampire, asshole!' Jobin said to Carlos. 'What are you gonna do about it?' Jobin, table leg in hand, runs, screaming his head off, straight at Carlos. Carlos' nostrails flare. He raises his fist and pulls it back, so he can really haul off. Jobin, top speed, stake raised, screaming. Carlos lets loose with his punch, Spike, Julia and Faye look up from the floor. Edward rises from behind the bar. Jobin's face collides with Carlos' fist. Carlos hits Jobin so hard it lifts the biker off the ground and propels him through the air. Spike sees where Carlos is heading and says: 'Oh, Shit!' Jobin, in mid-air, hits the barricaded, plastered over window and crashes through it. Carlos lets loos with a maniacal laugh. Hundreds of bat-things fly into the bar. Spike grabs Faye and Julia by the hand and runs for the back room. Behind the bar, Edward grabs two pieces of wood from off the ground. Ten vampires are in hot pursuit of Spike, Faye and Julia, who are running for their lives. They get to the door of the back room, whip it open, dive in and slam it behind them. An ugly, fleshy vampire manges to get it's head caught in the door as it closes, Julia and Faye push on the door as hard as they can. The vampire's head, which is inside, screams, howls and snaps in fury. Spike turns the bat/vampire in the door. He sticks his .45 in it's big mouth. 'You wanna suck something, suck on this!' He fires four shots that blow the bat vampire's head all over the wall. 'We have to go for Edward!' Julia yelled.
'Edward's dead.'
'Noooo!' She spins and grabs the door knob, ready to fling the door and help her friend. Faye grabs her and pushes her up against the wall.
'He's right, Julia. Edward's dead! She was too far away. If flinging that door and filling this room with those vampires would save him, I'd fling it. The only thing it'll do is turn us into one of them. She needs our help!' Spike said.
'She's beyond our help. You saw her get bit. I saw her get bit. We all saw it. You can't help her. I've got no one left to lose but you. I can't be alone again. We're sticking together, Spike.' Just then Spike hears Edward's voice booming from the bar room. Edward, holding a cross made out of two sticks and reciting an appropriate verse, is keeping the vampires at bay. But, as Spike predicted, it is the shining power of Faye Valentine's restored faith that is her mightiest weapon. Edward is making her way through the vampires, toward the back door. A lot of the bats have turned into bat/devil/human creatures. The creatures stand at the edge of Edward's force field of holiness. Many vampires fly around the bar like mad, whirling dervishes. A cluster of vampires over above and in front of Edward. They all growl and hiss at the hacker. For every one step forward Edward takes, the vampires take one step back. Edward recites the verse in a threatening, mean, motherfucking, vampire hunter tone. As she speaks with authority and strength, she sees Jobin lying on the ground, vampires on him like ants on a candy bar. But Edward is too much in control to let even this repugnant sight trip her up. 'Open the door.' Edward has backed herself up by the door. The door flies open. Edward jumps inside. The door slams shut. Edward hugs Faye and Julia. As she hugs them, her arm is full of blood. When she releases them, they can't help but notice. 'Did he..?' Spike asked.
'Yep.' Edward answered. Spike explodes, knocking over boxes, busting chairs, tipping over tables and cussing a blue streak.
'Fuck, piss, shit! Motherfucking vampires! Motherfucking vampires! Goddamn motherfucking vampires!' Spike runs over to the barricaded door and yells to the vampires on the other side. 'You all are gonna fucking die! I'm gonna fucking kill every last one of you godless fucking pieces of shit!'
'You bet your sweet ass you are, and I'm gonna help you do it. But we ain't got much time.' Faye said to Spike. Julia cries, knowing what's happened to Edward.
'You gonna be okay. aren't you, Edward?'
'No, I'm not. I've been bit. In effect, I'm already dead. listen to me. I just want you to know you've made me proud all your lives. But never more so than tonight. And I wish we could sit here and cry till I pass on, but we can't. Because I'm not going to pass on. I'm going to turn into a monster. And when I do, I'm going to be dangerous. Now, I'd say in the next twenty or thirty minutes our friends outside will bust in this door. And I'll probably turn into a vampire within the hour. Now, you have two choices. You can wait for me to turn, then deal with me, then wait for them to burst inside here and the three of you will deal with them. Or, we can kick open that door and the four of us can hit them with everything we have, and carve a path right through them to front entrance. But if we are gonna go at them, we gotta go at them now. I confused them, I scared them, I took them off guard. But they are going to get unconfused, they are going to get unscared, they are going to get together and they are going to hit that door like a ton of bricks. And when that moment arrives, we gotta be ready.' Edward said to Spike, Faye and Julia. Faye sees that the back room is pretty damn big and filled with boxes and crates.
'What the hell is all this?' Julia asked.
'My guess is that this big dive's been feeding on galaxy road waits like bounty hunters and outlaws for a long time. This is probably some of the shipments they stole off the cargo ships.'
'Well, I say let's tear this place apart for weapons. So when they burst through that door, we will make them wish they never did. I don't give a shit about living or dying anymore. I just want to send as many of these demons back to hell as I can.'
'As you wish, Spike.'