It was 10:03 AM when we reached our destination (I found out when my hand magically formed a clock when I thought about it) and it looked empty….at least at the surface. I watched Beatrice slowly hunting for a clue of Dark Tower number five. It was tedious like you wouldn't believe walking around the suspected area for fifteen minutes. "Bea, I think we might-Ahhh!" I screamed as the floor disappeared under my feet. Luckily I grabbed unto something (despite that the little fragments of glass cut into my hands like a motherfucker) and was able to catch a glimpse of the drop. From what I could see there were T.V.'s and such down below.

"I think we've found Wal-Mart," said Beatrice as she was helping me out. Once I was out and inspecting my hands (strangely the replacement hand bled) I asked, "How would you know that?" Beatrice only had to point down at the drop were there was a logo that said 'Wal-Mart' and under it 'Everyday low prices'.

"You smart ass."

"Don't I know it," she said taking both of my hands. It stung a little when she picked out all the little slivers of glass out of the cuts. After she was done pulling them out she brought my hand closer to her face palm up. It looked like she was about to kiss my palm but I felt her blow unto the wound. When she blew upon the cut I felt a strange yet pleasant sensation inside and outside the palm of my hand then it was gone. "What are you doing," I asked as she stuck her tongue to lick the wound. "I'm healing you," she said, her concentration on the cut. I'll admit I felt a little uneasy as she began licking the blood clean but I've learned to let things take it's course. Once she done with that hand she went to the other with the same treatment. The healed hand looked like it was never damaged.

By the time my hands were completely healed we got rope out of the RV then descended to Wal-Mart. With all the plasma screens and iPhones my guess was we were in the electronic section. "It's got to be a water hole around this area," stated Beatrice as she produced two small flashlights out for the both of us. I looked at her puzzled, I can see the need for water but weren't we looking for a book? She caught the look of confusion on my face and explained, "All the books that I've found have been under water protected in waterproof iron casing. Usually they come with a reward and a challenge."

"What kind of reward and challenge?" I asked walking beside her throw a row of phone cards and phones promising us to save money that was no longer needed. "Well," began Beatrice, "number one challenge was cheating death when I found book one deep in the basement. I swear it went really deep but if I didn't listen to my instinct that danger was coming when the comet arrived I would have been dead." And I wouldn't have met you, I thought as she told her story.

I listened to her adventure with great interest. With books 2 through 4 they all came with challenges like albino bats the size of humans, hungry cannibals, and most recognizable challenge where my own men. Along with the challenges were the rewards of books, an ice maker machine, then of course….me. We must have been walking around Wal-Mart for an hour listening to her story. As captivating as her perilous as her adventures were we still didn't find the water hole….and we were back to were we started.

"I don't mean to doubt you but do you think we might be wrong?"

"If this wasn't the place we wouldn't be here," said Beatrice, "Plus I'm never wrong." I kind of chuckled at that, why do women think they're always right? "Well, what if this is the fi-holy shit!" I yelped as my foot sank into the floor into liquid. Beatrice was laughing as I quickly got out of the water hole we just found.

"Oh, babe, I swear you bad luck likes to find you," she said patting my shoulder. The smile was still on her lips as she began to undress. I know why she's doing it, she's getting ready to go under water. Once she was fully naked the smile was gone, she looked dead serious now which was strange because when she was usually naked it was mostly playful. It looked like she was about to go to war.

"Alright, Jude, I want you to listen to me."

"I'm listening," I said, my eyes not breaking contact with hers.

"So far nothing has attacked us but that doesn't mean nothing's there. If anything comes out to attack us I want to distract it away from the hole or better kill it if possible. Besides book 1 there has always been something guarding it or the element around it but the most important thing is to stay alive."

"And I agree with you…..but what if something is under the water?"

"What do you mean?"

"What if it's a….I don't know….some water creature or something and-" My sentence was cut off when Beatrice pulled my closer to her and kissed me so deeply I temporarily forgot I was in a dangerous place. For a few minutes we kissed as if it was the end, for what I know it might be the end. "If we make it out….my reward….would be….to feel you in my arms again and…much, much more." When she promised this I squeezed both of her breasts moaning into my mouth in pleasure. Personally I would have just loved to take her right there but I felt this wasn't the right time. This was all about business.

"Please come back," I said to her when she slid herself into the hole. Without a word she disappeared into the dark water. Once she was under I watched with eyes wide open expecting whatever monster might jump at me. Something did come but it didn't attack me but it still frightened me to no end. I heard woman moan not in pain but in pleasure. I shouldn't have left but there was a screen playing on the far end of the electronics and I was curious as to why porn was in Wal-Mart. The closer I got the louder the cries of passion the woman ascended. Strangely this woman sounded familiar which frightened me yet I couldn't explain why till I set eyes on that screen.

On the screen was Beatrice on the bed we slept on for the passed month. She was on her, covered to the waist with her legs spread open. Her body trembled as I eat her out under the covers this morning making her climax into ecstasy. Through this whole trip we never taped our sexual activities nor do we need it. As I watched myself on the screen crawl up her body and kiss her I thought in fear. Who's watching us? I didn't think I would get an answer when I heard a voice say, "You two could make great porn stars."

Quickly I turned around to the voice with a gun appearing in my hand. There was a dark figure standing two feet away with glowing silver eyes, it reminded me of a wolf hunting for prey in winter. The silver eyes disappeared as the man stepped out into the light and I immediately knew who he was. He was the man that promised the retired porn star a deal that would 'set his family for life' in the land of Serbia only to seal the poor hero in a life of snuff films deemed as 'art'. This was Vukmir or what looked to be Vukmir.

"You're not real, you're nothing but a sick imagination," I said putting a bullet through his head. Only he didn't die and he laughed, his laugh was sickening.

"Of course Vukmir isn't real but I need something to make me tangible and your fear of this Vukmir makes him real. After all, you did wish the world would end after watching this Film. Especially the part with the newborn." Suddenly my ears were filled with the scream of the newly born child that was later violated in seconds. I never watched that scene but the scream was so horrible that is sent chills down my spine. "Make it stop!" I screamed on my knees with my palms over my ears. It felt like the scream could go on forever but thankfully stopped. I looked up to see the 'person' standing over me, his smile more evil then the Devil himself.

"You're going to hurt her just like you do with everyone else you hold so dear."

"No…I'll never hurt my Bea, I'll betray her."

"Oh Jude, you know as well as I do men have needs and promises are meant to be broken."

"What are you? Are you the challenge?" The person playing Vukmir laughed and said, "First off I think you know who I am. Barber already told you about me. As for the challenge it's not here but back at W&P were you'll faithfulness will be tested."

"I will never hurt her," I stated once more, Vukmir or Comet I should say grabbed me by the collar were I was forced to look at him face to face. I swear he looked different somehow yet I couldn't explain it. "Oh…You want a bet?" he said then turned bright for a few seconds then I was out.