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Ch.2 Ancient Evil
A teenager about seventeen leaned against a dirty back alley wall and sighed contently. He was dressed in black jeans and t-shirt, a medallion with the Satan star hung from around his neck. His skin was pale, his eyes were blue, his hair was unnatural white, and his emotionless face told of a hard life. Many scars decorated it; looking in both directions to make sure that no one was around he took out a small glass pipe from his back pocket. With his other hand he dug into another and pulled out a small plastic bag with white substance in it.
Hands shaking he cut the bag open with his teeth and poured the substance into the pipe. Taking special care not to waste any of it.
When the bag was empty he tossed it to the side and reached into his pocket once more. When his hand came back out he held a packet of matches. Selecting one he lit it and placed it over the white substance. Within seconds the substance disappeared and turned into smoke, which traveled down the pipe. The youth greedily sucked as much of it as he could before taking the pipe out of his mouth and puffing it into the air, a sly smile was on his blank face.
Hearing footsteps coming his way the youth quickly emptied his pipe and thrust it back into his pocket. Stroking his hair he leaned up against the wall with his arms crossed. An enormous man in his twenties walked down the alley towards him. He was huge, about seven feet tall, he was overweight not with fat but with solid muscle. He was dressed in black dickies with a black hoodie and the same medallion dangled from his neck. His head was shaved and sunglasses made it impossible to tell the colors of his eyes.
The man stood towering over the youth, and the youth waved nervously at him.
"Oh uh hello Earl." The small one said nervously.
As if the words enraged him Earl grabbed the small teen and lifted him off his feet.
"You miserable piece of shit!" He snarled, "Look at you smoking up all of the merchandise! Who the hell do you think you are Styx!"
Styx frowned at his words, "Employees privilege." He replied smartly.
Earl slammed Styx into the wall and snarled, "Why I outta kick your scrawny ass right here and now!"
Earl raised a heavy fist and was about to bring it down on Styx's head when a skinny man stepped out of the gloom. Earl put down Styx and turned towards the stranger who frowned at both of them.
"Earl, Styx, that is quite enough, now if you will please follow me." He told them quietly.
Unlike his counterparts the mans clothes were fashionable and quite expensive. He was dressed in a black Italian tuxedo. His face was handsome but pale and his eyes were jade green. The mans black hair was slicked back and his goatee was neatly trimmed, the same demon medallion hung from his neck.
"Yes minister." Replied Earl who set down Styx.
Smiling at Earl Styx began to follow Minister, while Earl muttered several threats to his back before starting after them. When he got close enough to Minister Earl sighed,
"Hey boss are you sure we can trust this Victor Link guy?" Earl asked slightly troubled, "I mean come on you know what he is."
Minister turned and glared at Earl, "Of course we can trust him." he reassured Earl. "We have no choice but to."
"Yeah and besides do you realize what that guy is offering us if we serve him?" Styx added. "Eternal life baby! Think about it you'll never get sick, you'll never tire, and you can never die!"
"Alright if you say so." Earl said unwillingly.
"Now that that's settled come on, we're running late, Victor, Predator, and Viper are already at the church waiting for us." Minister croaked.
The trio walked through the maze of alleys off "Demons Paradise" before coming to the tumbled down church in the center of a town square. A full moon was in the sky.
"Home sweet home." Styx snickered.
Earl was the first to reach the door, he opened them with one hand and with the others motioned the others to come in. Minister walked in first and Styx was second, Earl shut the door as he stepped inside. Styx was the first to notice the badly mutilated body on the floor.
"Jesus Christ, what the hell happened to him?" Styx said pointing to the corpse.
"The same thing is going to happen to you unless you give us a goddamn good reason not too!" A voice from the gloom threatened.
Styx stepped back frightened at first, until he recognized the tone of the voice. "Viper?" He asked worried.
"I see that all those years on drugs didn't do too much damage to your brain!" Viper responded as she stepped out of the shadows.
Viper was a beautiful young woman with red hair and jade green eyes. Her face was beautiful and her body was everything to be desired. She was dressed in a skin tight outfit that showed all of her bodies natural curves. She knew that she was beautiful and because of this men would do anything to have her. Even if it meant killing others, so it was safe to say that Viper was very manipulative. A hulking mountain of flesh emerged from the shadows alongside Viper. Styx quickly realized it was Predator, Predator was huge over eight feet tall. He stretched his enormous arms and yawned, Predator was wearing a gray shirt with black jeans. A hunting knife was visible in his belt with a skull buckle, and he smiled and looked down at Styx with his black eyes.
"Hello dinner." Predator mocked as he stood by Viper.
The same man who had mutilated Gonzalez strode out from shadows next to Styx. Who nearly jumped a mile when he did.
"Jesus Victor I hate it when you do that." Styx complained to him.
Not bothering to answer the small teen Victor walked over to Minister and stared at him with his pale eyes.
"Do you have everything?" Victor asked.
Minister pulled out a sinister looking dagger with a skull handle and handed it to Victor.
"And the book?" Victor asked suddenly.
"It's right here." Styx replied taking a black cover book out from his shirt.
"Excellent." Victor said, "Follow me our master awaits us."
With that Victor walked over to a bookcase and removed a book titled "Mans Inner Beast". When he did the bookshelf slid inward revealing a passageway. Motioning for the others to follow, Victor led the others down a stone stairway.
Styx shivered as they descended deeper and deeper into the darkness, it was so cold down here. Suddenly they came to a halt and stood in front of a huge iron door decorated with spikes. Opening it, Victor led the others into what looked like a sacrificial chamber. A coffin lay in the middle of the room. Taking the book from Styx Victor walked over to the coffin and opened it. Inside was a black skeleton with sharp fangs.
"With this dagger, amulet, and book of darkness I shall give my master new life!" Victor declared.
Victor then placed the amulet he had stolen earlier on the top of the dagger's skull handle, almost instantly a red light erupted from it. Minister who was closest to Victor stepped back slightly frightened. Opening the book Victor read a few of the ancient spells before plunging the dagger into the skeletons chest where heart once was. Suddenly the skeletons hands bolted up and began swinging wildly. The body shot up and Viper screamed when the skeleton began moaning, and raw flesh began growing on bones. A un beating heart grew inside the chest, along with lungs, arteries, and other organs. Eyes sprouted out from deep sockets, and hair was growing out of a skinless head. Minister turned towards Victor, he was grinning.
When the body finally stopped jolting it stepped out of its coffin, still not yet fully regenerated. Skinless muscles exposed suddenly the frightful being spoke in a European accent,
"Where am I?" It croaked.
Victor walked over to it and placed a hand on its shoulder, "Welcome home Count Dracula." He said, "Welcome home."
