Chapter Ten

Their was 56 people floating in human sized test tubes filled with some sort of clear fluid, they all were unconscious and hooked up to some sort of very advanced life support systems, most showed signs of missing a body part here and there, but it was the six people off in one corner that really pissed him off. There were three men and three women they didn't have any parts left to give. They were just a head and torso dependent on the life support just to live, the assholes running this place had harvested their eyes, inner ears, arms, legs, and internal organs, they had even taken the women's breasts and the men's gentiles. This "farm" didn't just harvest organs for normal hospitals and blood for the vampires but body parts for the dark mages, shamans and the demon surgeons that knew how to transplant any thing up to putting a person's brain into a new and younger body.

Solomon Kane had told Xander about the stories going around about some very powerful people with the right connections having their brains put into young, healthy bodies when the one they were into got to old and weak. Usually the body they used had belonged to a grandchild of the same gender. There was even a story going around about a man who was in his sixth body and he had a breeding program going on in his family just so he could have a ready supply of young strong bodies. In its own weird and twisted way it was a form of immortality.

Xander had a plan and if it worked it would blow the lid off this type of body farms for a while and probably catch some very powerful people in New York State and some in D.C. red handed, the supernatural side of this would just disappear for awhile. He first quietly found an office and called the FBI, ATF and the DEA. The FBI he told there was a terrorist group with a big bomb planning to hit wall street, the ATF he told them that a militant group was planning a raid on the New York armory, and the DEA he told they that there was a large amount of drugs were being stored and he told all of them his location, then he called all of the major news agencies and told them that the government was planning a raid and were. He knew it would take a while for all of the groups to get here so it was time to take out the trash and do some exploring of the building.

It took about 30 minutes to clear out the Dracula class vamps and the demons running the place, he took his time so the others didn't know that a hunter was among them and it gave him a chance to experiment on how many ways he could use his black fire. He could generate concussive force beams like he did with Caesar or a burning flame as well as a flame that acted like an acid and like his wings he could create solid objects such as stakes and swords. With that done he found the vault, it was in a back room and it was big. That's were he found out that his black flame could be used to override electronic locks and computers. He found that the vault was were they kept their files, both in computer and hard copy form as well as money in stacks and stacks of 20,000 dollar packets of 100 dollar bills and gold in the form of cases of Kugerands, that's were he discovered he could send things into a pocket dimension for storage since he didn't have any pockets in his armor so he withdrew the money and gold in the vault leaving the files for the authorities. That's when the local sheriff and three of his deputies showed up; he had tripped a silent alarm opening up the vault. They caught him leaving the Vault, they didn't have a chance.

They didn't even tell him to freeze, they opened up on him just as he stepped out, his armor stopped the bullets with ease and he returned the favor with his black flame, exploding from his body and enveloped them but he didn't kill or burn them, he used the flame to suck the heat out of their bodies and leaving them unconscious from hypothermic shock. He checked the backs of their necks and found a tattoo of a vampire glyph of the Dracula vampire clan that they were in service to, hoping one day they would become vampires themselves. Xander left a note for the authorities on how the Tattoos were a symbol that, that person belonged to the organization that ran this farm or an organization that had ties to it and not to trust anybody with a tattoo of a glyph on the back of their necks or on their wrists. Just minutes before the feds and reports showed up, on a blank wall in the building, so all could see, he burned the symbol on his chest, on the wall, so that it would be still be smoldering when the feds entered the building. Xander was in the woods by the building when the feds showed up and the reports right behind him, he already had his wings formed for a quick get away.

Xander spent the rest of the night flying around New York City. He stopped several muggings and robberies saved some people from vamps. He also saw Spiderman and Daredevil doing the same, muggings and robberies not vampires. He saw the Fantastic Four take off in their pogoplane and the Avengers leave in a Quinjet as well. He also watched Blade take out a Drac type vampire run club, man he was good and he had some neat toys, Xander thought about helping the heroes but felt that it wasn't time for him to do that yet. It was around four in the morning and Xander was thinking about his hotel room and its bed when he heard a sword fight, he was near O'Malley's bar. He followed the sound to a back lot behind the bar and saw Max, (Mr. O'Malley), fighting a biker looking dude. Xander landed and started to go help Max, then he got a good look at their life forces and was surprised at what he saw. Their auras had lightening bolts running through in, the little voice or instinct, that had been telling him what to do all night since he armored up, told him to back off and watch, this wasn't his fight. Xander saw that he wasn't the only person watching the fight, Max's wife Sheba and his assistant Frank were in a shadow near the bar's back door watching and Sheba didn't look to happy and a biker looking woman was watching from a ally way across the street. Xander watched the whole fight and saw his first quickening, he saw how Max's aura consumed the bikers energy and excepted the memories and life experiences in it. Xander was going to keep an eye on Max because he had saw by the aura of the biker that the guy had, had no guilt or conscience what so ever, if it wasn't for the fact that the guy had a soul and a heart beat, Xander would have taken the guy for a demon vamp, damn some of the vamps he had killed tonight had more signs of a conscience in their auras than this guy had and the woman across the street showed signs of being infatuated with the guy. Xander was so going to have a long talk with Solomon about Max, he had wondered on how Max was able to survive ten years of marriage with Sheba, she was a Vampyr type vampire around two hundred years old.

The next day when he talked to Solomon and told him that he was going to resume his road trip, Solomon had told him that though he was sorry to see Xander leave, that it was probably a good idea. He also told him that he had plans of moving on as well, he had been living in New York for ten years now and it was time to leave and start a new life somewhere else. When Xander asked Solomon about O'Malley and told him what he had seen last night in the back parking lot, he told him about the Immortals (Highlander) and their game and that O'Malley had owned and run that bar of his for the past 150 years and because of his clientele and the people who lived in the area max was able to live in the area the whole time without having a problem and Max was around two hundred years old as well.