Chapter Sixteen
"How's that for a plot twist?" Peter asked while Jessie walked closer and stood in front of Peter, crossing her arms over her chest. "Tell me. How long were you and Pendragon fucking each other before he became a crispy critter?"
Peter didn't have time to move when Jessie glared at him then swung her fist, punching Peter in the mouth.
"Hey!" Cassandra said when Peter held up his hand and wiped the blood away with the back of his hand. Standing up, Peter spit some blood out of his mouth then ran his tongue over his teeth and glared at Jessie.
"Doc, what the fuck is going on?" Mark asked, getting confused.
"You really are thick, aren't you?" Anthony asked as he rolled his eyes and Mark flipped him off.
"Mind answering my question?" Peter asked while walking closer and placed his hand on the gold hilt of the silver blade sword.
"Fine, we weren't dating. Oscar Pendragon was my brother," Jessie said and Mark's eyes widened.
"What?" Mark asked and Peter rolled his eyes, shaking his head.
"Ok, seeing that I have to explain this to Mister Dim Bulb over here, I will elucidate. Pendragon wasn't Oscar's real name. It was his stage name. His real last name was Forest and SHE is or was his sister!" Peter said while pointing with his hands toward Jessie then turned, looking at her. "Now, my next question is why did you kill Henry Altman?"
"He refused to sue the city after Oscar was injured," Jessie said and Peter frowned, blinking his eyes a few times.
"Well, maybe that's because your brother was an asshole and shouldn't have performed Dante's Inferno in the first place!" Anthony said and Jessie glared at him, balling her hands into fists.
"Easy does it. Now, my next question is how did your brother die? Was it from complications during the skin grafts Doctor Andrew Bennett performed?" Peter asked and Jessie glared at him.
"Yes, he died from complications during surgery," Jessie growled.
"Ah, which gives you motive for killing Doctor Bennett. Now I know why you killed Gordon Lester and Zoltar Casmiri. Gordon Lester was the one that allowed your brother to perform Dante's Inferno and Zoltar was the one that stopped him when he tried to make a brake for it."
"But why did she wait so long to exact her revenge?" Cassandra asked as Peter turned to look at her and smiled.
"Ah, that is a VERY good question!" Peter said as he held up a finger then spun around on his heels, looking at Jessie. "The reason is because we were never in the city at the same time! Altman and Bennett might have been in town, but not me, Zoltar and Gordon Lester!"
"Or you and Zoltar could be in town and not the others," Stephanie said and Peter walked to her, kissing her cheek.
"Exactly, BUT this time we were all in town! A perfect chance for her to activate her revenge plan! I'm still not sure if she wanted me dead or she wanted to frame me for murder. Oh, she did have the opportunity to plant whatever she wanted to use in order to frame me. The thing was she couldn't plant the evidence at the scene because of the other police officers and CCTV cameras, BUT she could plant whatever it was at the morgue. She just had to stand with her back to the CCTV camera. You did make one tiny mistake though."
"What is he talking about?" Mark asked and Seamus hushed him.
"I am talking about the plastic bag with the sideburns, moustache, goatee and eyebrow ring," Peter said with a smug look on his face then crossed his arms over his chest. "How many loops are there to my eyebrow ring?"
"There is one," Wiktor said as Peter looked at him and smiled.
"Bingo!" he said then looked at Jessie. "How many loops did the eyebrow ring in the plastic bag have?"
"It had two loops," Seamus said when Peter walked over to him, cupped his head in his hands and kissed Seamus on the lips. Seamus gave him a disgusted look as Cassandra laughed and rolled her eyes.
"The next thing she needed something special, something she could control and use to exact her revenge. That something was His Lordship!" Peter said while pointing with his hands toward D'yar'nath. "How long did it take for you to find him?"
"It took three years," Jessie said and Peter nodded his head.
"And it must have taken a lot of sneaking around and money to get the statue here from wherever they had hidden it. You also needed a place to hide the statue and this old building was a great choice. It's in a low rent neighborhood and no one would care if, say, someone shot off a rifle in the middle of the night," Peter said and Seamus did notice that he didn't hear sirens after Peter had fired the rifle "The next thing you had to do is find a way to bind His Lordship to your will. That would require two things."
They watched as Peter walked to the silver circle and D'yar'nath watched him walking around the silver circle, hopping over the holes.
"You needed a binding circle and a solid silver one with binding ruins usually does the trick. Then you needed a controller," Peter said as he looked around the room while shining the light around and smiled at D'yar'nath. "It had to be something that belonged to His Lordship, but what was it?"
Cassandra walked closer while she looked at D'yar'nath and blinked her eyes a few times. Thinking back to the drawing of D'yar'nath, she tried to see the drawing in detail when she remembered something and her eyes widened.
"You mean like a black diamond on a gold chain?" she asked when Peter looked at her and titled his head to one side. "Do you remember the drawing of D'yar'nath in your demoncrom? He was wearing what looked like a gold chain with a black stone or diamond on the end of it."
"Yeah, I do remember seeing that," Peter said then walked to Jessie and locked eyes with her. "Where is it?"
"Are you talking about this?" Jessie said as she held up a gold chain with a round, black diamond the size of a grapefruit and Peter shined the light on the round, black diamond. The round, black diamond seemed to shimmer in a red light as he slid his hand under the round, black diamond and the power coming from the round, black diamond felt like the power he felt coming off the bodies of Zoltar, Doctor Bennett, Henry Altman and Gordon Lester. Moving his hand away, Peter backed up as Jessie smiled at him and moved the gold chain, making the round, black diamond sway back and forth.
"Why do I have the feeling that the one with the magic was you and not Oscar," Peter said as he arched an eyebrow and Jessie softly laughed, cupping the round, black diamond in her hand.
"Well, Oscar was good at the little things, but, yeah, the one with the power was me," she said and grinned an evil grin. "Want to see what I can do?"
"Oh, Love, that could be taken in such a naughty way," Peter said as he tightened his grip on the hilt of the silver blade sword and locked eyes with her.
"Oh get over yourself. I wouldn't touch you if you were on fire," she growled then held up the round, black diamond and Peter saw the red light growing brighter.
"Peter!" Cassandra said as he turned and looked over at D'yar'nath. D'yar'nath's eyes were glowing in a red light as D'yar'nath flexed its fingers in and out and scraped its feet on the floor.
"Great," Peter sighed then removed the silver blade sword out of the scabbard and D'yar'nath softly growled. Wrapping his fingers tightly around the handle of the sword, Peter locked eyes with D'yar'nath and D'yar'nath growled, scraping its feet on the floor. Peter's eyes had adjusted to the low light as his eyes darted from one arm to the other when D'yar'nath roared and swung the upper right arm and Peter swung the silver blade sword, connecting with the upper right arm. D'yar'nath yowled then swung the lower right arm and the upper left arm and Peter dodged, swinging the silver blade sword and the silver blade sliced through the skin of the arms.
"Need some help?" Anthony asked when he held the hose of the flamethrower in his hands and Peter looked at him then ducked when D'yar'nath swung its arms.
"If you would be so kind," Peter said with a grin and Anthony turned the flamethrower on and lit the gas hissing from the end of the hose. A long tongue of fire lit up the room when Anthony took aim as D'yar'nath growled and Anthony pulled the trigger. D'yar'nath growled as the flames hit at the center of its back and D'yar'nath howled, turning around and looking at him.
"Oh shit," Anthony said then pulled the trigger and a long tongue of flame hit D'yar'nath in the face. D'yar'nath howled as Wiktor sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Using fire on demon from Hell? That is just stupid. It lives in fire. Watch me," Wiktor said then charged at D'yar'nath and Wiktor held the handle of the double blade axe in his hands. Growling, Wiktor swung the double blade axe as D'yar'nath growled then screamed when Wiktor sliced off the upper right arm, spaying black blood into the air. The upper right arm landed with a thud onto the ground while the fingers twitched then stopped and Wiktor raised the double blade axe over his head, howling while tilting his head back.
"Wiktor, watch out!" Frank shouted then took aim with the rifle he had on his lap and pulled the trigger. D'yar'nath roared as the bullets hit its back then turned and looked at Frank. Seamus and Mark drew their guns as they pulled the triggers and D'yar'nath howled, turning to face them. Stephanie held the super soaker water gun as she pulled the trigger and D'yar'nath screeched as the holy water hit its skin. Peter brushed some hair from his eyes when he shrugged then swung the silver blade sword and cut a long gash across D'yar'nath left side. The black blood dribbled to the floor as smoke rose into the air and Peter smelt something that smelled like rotten eggs.
"Be careful of the blood! It's acid!" Peter shouted while they fought with D'yar'nath and Cassandra looked at Jessie, who was smiling and held the round, black diamond tightly in her hand. Boe had been roaring and snapping at D'yar'nath while Cross sat on Cassandra's wrist then flew into the air, heading for Jessie.
"Shit!" Jessie said while holding her arms up to protect her face when Cross wrapped its talons around the round, black diamond and pulled the round, black diamond out of her hand. "NO!"
Cross flew back to Cassandra as she held her hand out and Cross dropped the round, black diamond into her hand. Growling, Jessie ran at Cassandra then dived on her and grabbed hold of the round black diamond. Slamming Cassandra's hand over her head, Jessie saw the red light shimmering in the round, black diamond and held tightly onto the round, black diamond. Cross flew into the air when the falcon raked its claws on Jessie's back and Jessie screamed, reaching behind her as she tried to grab hold of Cross.
"Cassy!" Peter shouted, but Cassandra shook her head and Peter sighed, looking back at D'yar'nath. D'yar'nath growled then ran toward Peter when Peter stepped over the silver circle and held tightly onto the handle of the silver blade sword. Swinging the silver blade sword, Peter's eyes widened when D'yar'nath swatted the silver blade sword out of his hands and the silver blade sword slid across the floor, stopping near Cassandra's left hand. Taking a few steps, D'yar'nath's feet sank into the holes into the floor and D'yar'nath fell, landing hard on its ass and its eyes went wide. "Ooo, that had to hurt!"
D'yar'nath growled while it tried to get free when the floor collapsed and D'yar'nath tumbled downward, its arms flailing back and forth. Before Peter could move, the floor under him collapsed as he looked down and sighed, rolling his eyes.
"Oh fuck," Peter sighed as he fell and the last thing he heard was Cassandra calling his name.