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Asylum of the Dead: Kindred Spirits
Chapter 2: Demented
By Saint Raven
Priest stood, not moving, never wavering, as the Asylum huddled together in the center of the decimated apartment room. The door to the room splintered in half, allowing Vempriss entrance. The Princess of the Dead stood triumphantly, cackling at the boys.
"Your personal histories end here, gentlemen." She said. "Now hand over Sain."
"Never," Jersey replied. From out of the corner of his eye, he spotted Psycho slowly stretching his arm towards the floor of the room. Psycho closed his eyes and concentrated. Slowly, tendrils of mist began flowing from his fingertips. When they touched the floor, the mist became ice, slowly freezing the floor. "We are as one, together. You'll have to kill us to take Christian"
The vampire smirked. "That's music to my ears, Devil." Her grin disappeared. "You four have caused our cult far too much trouble already. His blood will be used to resurrect our master." She nodded to the cloaked figure. "Now."
"NOW!" Jersey yelled as the pair started forward. Rocko cocked a shell in his 12-gauge and roared. "PULL!"
The floor underneath them, which Psycho had completely frozen solid, shattered when the shotgun blast connected with it. The entire group fell through the floor and crashed into the apartment below them.
"FUCKIN' SCATTER!" Rocko yelled as he grabbed Sain the raced through the door leading to the floor's hallway, Jersey and Psycho in hot pursuit. Vempriss shrieked in rage in flew after them, Priest right behind his mistress.
The boys reached the end of the hallway, which split up into two different directions. Jersey and Psycho sprinted down one way, and Rocko pulled Christian down the other.
One floor above them, Minion finally reached the proper window and broke the glass with his forearm, falling to the floor below him. He glanced curiously at the large hole in the floor in front of him. The creature hissed in confusion.
To his right, the wall collapsed and Karnage burst through, screaming in rage. He grabbed Minion, hoisted him on his shoulder, and leapt through the opening in the floor.
Mister Psycho burst through the fire escape on the ground floor, turning to high-five The Wicked One as he ran out next to Psycho. Their celebration ended as they realized that they were not being followed.
"Shit," Psycho remarked to Jersey, "they all followed Rocko and Christian."
"I can't fucking believe this," Rocko muttered to himself as he and Sain ran through the seventh story of the building, Vempriss and Priest only meters behind them.
"Pick an apartment and hole up in it," Christian said, pointing to an open doorway at the end of the hallway directly in front of them.
The pair hurled themselves through the door and slammed it shut. Christian pulled an overturned dresser in front of the door to help barricade it shut. The door rattled with screams from the other side.
Rocko ran to the window and looked out of it. "Jackpot!" he called as he was a fire escape directly below them attached to the story directly below.
"Give me a piece," Sain replied, holding his hand out. Rocko pulled a Silverballer from his belt and tossed it to Sain. The young man caught the magnum and hefted it. "Nice…"
The door shook again. "SO NOT THE FUCKING TIME!..." Rocko shouted. Christian shook himself out of his reverie. "Right, sorry." He ran over to assist Rocko.
"Here, help me down," Rocko said, throwing his legs out over the ledge and hanging from the window sill. Sain grabbed his wrists and carefully lowered him downwards until Rocko was able to touch down on the fire escape.
"Perfect, now you." The Halloween Hellraiser called up to his friend. Sain stood and prepared to jump when a loud crashing sound erupted from behind him.
Vempriss stood back from the barricaded door, clenching her fists in anger. She felt an insistent tap on her shoulder . She turned to see Priest gesturing urgently up the corridor. Vempriss raised her head, stared in shock, and then barely leapt out of the way as the dark disciple ran at full tilt past her…
Christian turned to see Karnage explode his way into the room, holding Minion on his shoulder. The large man hurled the little creature at Sain like a javelin.
Christian pulled up the baler and fired a round at Minion. The slug buried it's way into Minion's shoulder, throwing the smaller creature's direction off so that he crashed into the wall next to the window. Karnage bellowed and jumped at Sain, who fired again, sending a magnum round into Karnage's left thigh. The man screamed and lurched forward, biting down on Christian's right shoulder so hard that his teeth punched their was straight to Sain's shoulder bone. The younger man cried out and struck Karnage square between the eyes, forcing the man to release his hold. Sain stumbled backwards and toppled out of the window, over shooting the fire escape and plunging towards the ground below.
Psycho and Jersey watched in stunned silence as Christian swan dived towards the pavement and plunged headfirst down into an open manhole.
"You've gotta be fucking kidding me…" Jersey muttered to himself.
Up on the seventh floor, Vempriss stood over Karnage, holding a chemical vial under his mouth. The disciple shook with pain as he carefully allowed the blood he had sucked from Sain's shoulder drip into the vial. When he was finished, the container was over half-filled.
Vempriss smiled.
To Be Continued…
