The Angel of Darkness Continues:

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Chapter Two: Kurtis' Nightmare

Halfway through night Kurtis began to toss and turn in the chair he was sleeping in. He began Farsee seeing things in his dream that really seemed to scare him.
* Some place in the heart of Prague, Marten Gundersen, a veteran and head of an organization known as the Agency, was talking to someone with a little resemblance to Joachim Karel. "Mr. Gundersen, how would like to be employed with a job that involves getting even with a couple miscreants that ruined the revival of the Nephillim race." "Sir, I thought you were dead." "I am not Joachim Karel." "Then who are you, sir?" "My name is Nicholi Karel, I am Joachim long lost brother." "He never mentioned you, sir?" "Oh well, that's Joachim for you, a selfish and heartless person who never had much to do with his family. The only thing we shared was the same Nephilim blood and goal to revive the Sleeper." "Sir, the Sleeper was destroyed along with your brother." "Yes, but no one ever knew about an ancient meteorite that can show us where the other Sleeper is, and when you place it in the Sleepers hands it revives it." "Joachim, never mentioned anything about that." "That because he didn't know about it, only I did, and because he never talked to me, that's why he failed to revive the Nephilim race." "Why is there another Sleeper?" "The Nephilim race created two Sleepers in case one was destroyed, and they also had two different methods in finding and reviving each of them, as well." "So are you interested or not?"

They were both sitting down at the table, where the Cabal organization used to gather around, back when more of them were alive. "I don't mean to be rude, sir, but who are you really?" Karel revealed his true face for a brief moment and then turned back to what he look like before. "I'm part of the Nephillim race, and I want to try again to find and revive this other Sleeper, and revive that race, as well. Although in order to so, we need a team or someone to go and retrieve the meteorite known as "Nepherium," which is buried in the heart of Siberia. And to have another team go and retrieve the other meteorite known as "Malpherium," which is buried in the heart of Amazon Rainforest." "Why are there two meteorites?" "One is revives the Nephilim race, and the other one when joined with the other destroys everything Nephilim race affiliated. After that, it then destroys both of the meteorites, so that no can revive the race ever again." "Sir, what about Mrs. Croft and Mr. Trent." "You mean the two that destroyed my brothers plan, well we could eliminate them, but what would the fun of that be." "Are you suggesting that we could use one of them to help us?"

A few minutes pass, and Karel mentions, "Yes, we could kidnap one of them, brainwash them, and put them to work for us, and then we could use one to lure in the other to eliminate them." "Sir, if we do that we will need to be careful, so they don't meddle themselves in what were doing." "That's why we will dispose of them, when the time is right." "Yeah, but Mrs. Croft as proven to be quite an agile opponent, and she did help a little before, until what seemed like the end of everything." "What about Mr. Trent?" "Well first of all, I thought he was presumed to be dead, because of that fight he had with Boaz." "Who do propose works with us?" "I propose we get Mrs. Croft to work for us, and then use her as bait to lure Mr. Trent in." "Then eradicated them, sir." "Precisely, what I had in mind." "Sir, what if he gets to the meteorite that counteracts the other one?" "I would like you to meet, Mrs. Vorchincov, she's a highly trained assassin in tactical espionage from Russia." She walked into room, and stated, "Please to you meet you, Mr. Gunderson, my name is Mila Vorchincov." "Mrs. Vorchincov will help us bring Lara in, and to keep Mr. Trent out of our way for a while." "Mr. Karel, sir?" "Yes." "I will leave immediately and kidnap Lady Croft, but you must promise me that Mr. Gunderson will stay out of my way, unless I need his help." "Certainly, you understand that Mr. Gunderson." "Yes, sir." So Mila left to collect what items and weapons she needed to complete her mission, and then she was on her way.

"Mr. Gunderson I will need a special team of yours to help reconstruct the Lab." "I can get right on that, sir." "Oh Mr. Gundersen, please do not fail me, or you will suffer the same fates Joachim's crew did." "Yes sir, I fully understand." "I will keep in touch with you periodically, to see how things are going." "Alright, and one last question, sir." "And that is?" "What if Mr. Trent finds out about the one meteorite that can destroy the other?" "Mrs. Vorchincov will take care of that, and if she needs your help she let you know. Although you can have a few elite teams ready and on standby, so when there needed there ready." "Yes, sir." "Now please be on your way, and please do not disappoint me." "I won't sir." Mr. Gundersen left the room to do what he was told, while Karel thought to himself, "This time Mrs. Croft and Mr. Trent, you will not be so lucky in winning." Then Karel got up from the table, and went on with what he had to do. *

Kurtis began sweating profusely, and screamed out, "You can't have her." This woke Lara up, and she looked over at Kurtis. "This can't be real, no way it can be real," he yelled out in his sleep. Lara notice that he was sweating, tossing and turning, which began worrying her that there was something more to this nightmare of his. Lara got out of bed without seeing what time it is, and ran over to Kurtis. "Can you hear me, Kurtis?" He repeated, "You can't have her." She shook him gently and pleaded, "Kurtis, please wake up." He didn't respond to that, so she shook him a little harder, and cried out to him, "Kurtis, wake up!" Kurtis began to hear a faint voice that sounded like Lara's calling out to him, but had trouble replying and waking up. Lara went into the kitchen to get a cold towel, and brought it back into the room. She took the cover off, which in turn spooked him, and then she proceeded to use the towel to help cool and calm him down. He unconsciously swatted at whatever or whoever was touching him, which seem to have hurt Lara. She stepped back from him, and then began crying from the pain in her heart and her cheek, because of him hitting her.

Although Lara couldn't find it inside herself to hit him back, and she began to realize that he was still asleep when he did it, so he probably didn't realize what he was doing. Lara cried in the most desperate plea, "Damn it, Kurtis wake up!" She decided to go again with what she thought about doing, so as she was about to slap him back, he suddenly grabbed her hand. He was in the process of waking up and said, "Lara.I'm really sorry for hitting you, I really didn't mean to, but." "But what?" "I was having a really scary nightmare." "What was it about?" "It was like I was having Farsee vision in my nightmare, of Karel and Gundersen conjuring up a plan to revive this other Sleeper, and to have us out of the way." "You mean to tell me, that you really think you saw something, that's going to happen." "I hope not, but I really fear that it is going to happen. Although, whatever happens, you and I need to stay close together, to keep them from separating us."

Lara had already stopped crying, and accepted his apology. "Kurtis, please explain that thing you said?" "They plan on separating us.. and." He was snapped out of his train of thought, by another vision appearing in his mind briefly. Lara saw the concerned look on his face and asked, "Kurtis, what's wrong?" "We're not safe her anymore, because I had a brief vision of some woman and an army are coming this way." "Where should we go?" "I don't know, Lara, and honestly I'm really scared that's this is all going to come true in matter of hours." "We could go back to Paris, and research whatever they talked about in your nightmare," suggested Lara. "That's a good idea Lara, we can head for Paris, and it will at least get us out of Prague." "Who do you think is after us?" "Mila Vorchnicov, who according to the nightmare, is highly trained assassin in tactical espionage from Russia. The army must be men of Gundersen, from the Agency." "Oh my, and we don't even have any weapons to fight back with, do we?" "We only have my Chirugai, which can hopefully by us some time, if we get in a tight situation."

In the meantime, Mila Vorchnicov contacted Mr. Gundersen via cell phone. "Mr. Gundersen, this is Mila, I have a special request I need to ask of you." "And that is, Mrs. Vorchnicov?" "Could you send an elite team out here, so I can kidnap Lady Croft?" "I thought you could handle it yourself." "I can, but I think that having some of your forces down here, will distract them and make them think that's who's after them, not me. Does that make sense to you, Mr. Gundersen?" "Yes, ma'am it does." "So can you do that for me, Mr. Gundersen." "Yes, Mrs. Vorchnicov, I'm sending out some of my elite teams now." "Vorchnicov, out." She hung up the phone, and continued on with her task, while Mr. Gundersen sent out orders for a couple of his elite teams to head out, with what he told them to do.