The Dark Messenger (26 page)

‘I’m ill, and unless you wait a few more
minutes, I think I will die the next time we jump. Unless you want
that to happen, you have to give me a little more time,’ he said as
he pretended to hold his stomach.

‘Well hurry up, you pathetic individual. I
need that vase!’ he screamed.

Longinus quickly messaged Rex again, ‘Okay, I
will help you, but you must tell me how I can approach your guards
in the future without them killing me. Something that will make
them undoubtedly believe that I was here, otherwise they will kill
me on sight. They know I jumped back in time on your mission, and
will suspect that there is some skullduggery going on.’

‘I understand. OK tell them, ‘Viatis
Onertiunes’. They will understand that I am alive by this.
Longinus, I accept that you came on a mission against us, but I
promise I will not kill you if you help me escape here. Instead, I
will give you riches beyond your beliefs and land far from us. You
will be free from covens, and we will not seek revenge. You have my
word, I promise. When you arrive there, make sure you get a message
back to Vius, though. Tell him to call off the attack in Brighton
and NOT to kill anyone there, including the woman. The Church may
start a Holy War if she dies.’

Longinus was suddenly seen smiling at the
ground by Raffious.

‘Why are you smiling?’ He said as he glanced
across at Rex, who was looking through the bars in another
direction. ‘Were you communicating with Rex somehow? What did he
say? Tell me or I will leave you here forever!’

Rex knew he wanted to intervene here, to try
to persuade Raffious that they weren’t messaging each other. But
knew that if he did, it would be clearly obvious that they had in
fact been communicating. Raffious might then leave Longinus there
too, and then both of them would be buggered if that happened. So
he said nothing.

Longinus glared at Raffious. ‘First, you
fool, I was smiling because I feel better inside. And what do you
mean we were communicating with each other? What--do you think we
can talk telepathically or something?’ he said in a mocking
tone.

‘And if you did leave me here, you don't get
the vase. So shut up and let’s jump forwards so I can get the last
piece of the vase, before I change my mind and then decide not to
get it for you!’ Longinus was trying reverse psychology on him, and
he was surprised how easy it worked.

‘Fine then, you little shit, come here and we
will jump,’ Raffious said.

Longinus walked over to him and Raffious
grabbed him hard by the shoulder.

Rex knew he was about to be alone again in
this desolate place, and for exactly how long this time he had
absolutely no idea. Quickly he shouted, ‘Longinus, I will kill you
one day for this! You are a traitor to me and your own kind!’ He
hoped Longinus knew he had only said it to help persuade Raffious
that they hadn’t been communicating.

Then Rex with all his years of practice, then
sucked up enough phlegm in his throat to drown a rat and launched
the whole mouthful at the old boy. It sailed through the air and
looked promising it was going to hit him too.

Raffious grinned and then vanished. The
phlegm wasn’t fast enough though, and then without the target being
there, it sailed through the air and disappeared into the bushes
beyond.

Rex screamed and then picked another lump of
loose flesh off his face and started chewing it.

One hundred warriors from
the future had arrived back in 2014, to be shown by Longinus where
the entrance to Kaine’s secret house was. They had spent a long
time pulling apart the garage door, unaware there was another
entrance up above them.

Finally the door had
crashed inwards and a wave of ten warriors charged in with deeply
heinous intentions. They were seeking the priest’s daughter Jenny,
and also going to kill everyone else in there.

Inside, Kaine was full of
anger, but as they broke through, the realism of their intent to
harm his family, metastasized his already bitter nefarious
thoughts, into a furious rage. He savagely killed two of them
before they could prepare to defend themselves.

The first Kaine killed by
ripping his head off, whilst the second, surprised by the shear
speed and brutality of the first death, made a stupid error leading
to his own throaty demise. Kaine thrust his razor-sharp fingernails
straight through the warriors neck. The dying vampires eyes lit up
for a moment with terror before he made desperate gurgling sounds,
then dead.

Becky in her borrowed red
dress leapt up like a monkey onto the chest of another vampire, and
from his face, she pulled away half a cheeks worth of
flesh.

The vampire threw her off
though like she was nothing to him; spinning her through the air,
she landed on rusty metal toolboxes. Furious and ignoring the pain,
she leapt back up and charged again, but now there were three
vampires there, not one.

Kaine joined in and
launched his boot up into one of the attackers sternums, thrusting
him backwards so hard that he crashed into the other two. Then the
three of them tripped over a corpse and slammed into the wall.
Scrabbling to rejoin the fight, he dived on top and using a
borrowed sword, he killed them all.

Then Becky screamed out
for him to duck, and as he turned around a sword missed his face by
inches. Diving forwards into the attacker, the two of them grappled
and tussled. Through the fight Kaine had hold of the warriors wrist
that was holding the sword, but when they tripped over a corpse
together, he dropped the sword and the two of them were sent
sprawling.

Deciding that now was not
the time to practice his jujitsu because a new wave of vampires was
coming inside, Kaine leapt back up. Then like a B grade Van Damme
movie, he round housed the vampire in the face, that he had been
fighting moments before. The force of the impact as his boot hit
the vampire’s mouth, sent some of his teeth scattering across the
floor.

Then after killing a few
more, he glanced around realizing he only had one vampire
left.

‘Leave now and I won’t
kill you,’ he boomed, but Becky stepped too close, and fearing for
her safety, he stabbed the warrior through the head with his
sword.

Kaine suddenly decided
that he felt it would be saver without Becky in the garage, not for
him but for her because she had no combat experience or training.
He said it would be safer for him to fight alone without being
distracted by having to look out for her.

Becky accepted she hadn’t
helped much, hurried across to the stairs. Only as she was about to
go up, without warning a new wave of vampires came running in
through the garage door.

Their screams mimicked
Indians and General Custer at The Battle of the Little Big Horn.
The demonic sounds ripped through the garage and escalated up
through every floor. Regina was upstairs keeping Jenny calm, but
hearing the screams, the priest’s daughter already terrified,
succumbed to her fears and collapsed to the floor.

With Kaine finding himself
somewhat overwhelmed by their heavy surge, he was unable to stop
two warriors slipping past and heading over to Becky.

She saw them coming threw
herself into a wild stance. Crouching low with her black nails
cupped as she prepared to attack. The two vampires laughed as they
drew near, and with salacious thoughts booming for the female of
their species in her red dress, they glanced back at Kaine to be
sure he was loosing. Then with deep expectations of his demise
being imminent, they leered at her with arched eyebrows and a
lascivious grin.

Dropping their shields,
they holstered their swords, and walked forwards believing her to
be no immediate threat, as they prepared to rape her.

Only hearing Solomon’s low
and deep guttural growl as he charged down the stairs, their
salacious interests disappeared in an instant.

The nearest vampire to the
stairs went for his blade, and Becky lunged for the second vampire
who bent down for his shield.

Solomon dived through the
air and bit the vampire’s arm, making him drop his sword as his
fingers fell limp. Then Solomon let go and launched himself up for
the throat. His silver-laced teeth tore a massive chunk of flesh
out of the vampire’s neck, resulting in death.

Bruce came charging down
the stairs moments after Solomon and caused havoc with the other
vampire who was slashing his sword for Becky. Even though he was
holding his shield up, death still came for him. Bruce distracted
the fool whilst Solomon went round the back and took off his
head.

Meanwhile over at the
entrance, Kaine was in trouble like a cornered animal. He was
surrounded by vampires and desperately trying to fight them off but
it looked like soon they would kill him. He was swinging his
borrowed swords in huge circles as they lunged for him.

The dogs seeing their father in the situation
he was in went crazy. Without any regard for their own safety to
flew across and even ignored their training, as they dived in the
vampires, savagely tearing them limb from limb. Fingers bitten off
dropped here and there, swords clanged against the floor, now
unable to hold due to having their arms violently ripped apart. The
dogs were the force beyond all forces that they had never
encountered before.

Kaine leapt forwards and drove his massive
blade through the chest of one vampire whilst he was screaming in
pain from dog bites. Then he spun around and took just the forehead
off another with a vicious whirlwind swipe.

Becky found herself on top of another,
slicing his face apart and tearing at his eyes until Kaine brought
his sword to bear and gutted the fool where he stood.

Spinning around realizing their should be two
more left to kill, he almost wet himself with laughter as he saw
them bolt out the entrance dropping their swords with Bruce and
Solomon wildly snapping at their heals.

Looking around the garage,
Kaine realized that so far they had been incredibly. The floor was
literally covered in bodies and there were dismembered body parts
everywhere. For the squeamish at heart it was so sick, it actually
looked like a macabre scene from a banned horror movie.

Then checking the dead with the tip of his
sword, he found that one of them over by the door was still
breathing. He was laying face down and almost breathing through his
ears due to his wound being so bad.

As Kaine was about to thrust his sword into
him, outside the gathering clouds parted and then a streak of
moonlight washed across the entrance. A discarded shield laying by
the door, acted like a huge torch as it reflected the silver gong
in the sky’s eerie luminescent glow across the entire garage.

The warrior with but moments to live was
basked in it and something on his arm glimmered in its rays.

Kaine saw it and immediately thought it
looked familiar. Furrowing his brow as he stooped over the body for
a closer look, he realized he had an identical bracelet too. Then
he remembered Raffious had given it to him and his veins were
filled with rage.

‘
Raffious, I’m gonna
fucking kill you!’ He screamed. He hoped somewhere, in the parallel
dimension or wherever the old boy was hiding, that he might hear
him.

Then he turned the vampire
over and after a deep meaningful stare into his eyes, he told him
that he could be saved if he drank his blood, but he had to agree
to answer questions. The vampire thought about it and as Satan’s
tunnel of flames began to appear in his mind, the vampire
nodded.

Kaine sensing the urgency
slid his arm along the edge of a sword and thrust the gaping wound
into the vampire’s mouth.

‘Drink!’ he screamed, glancing back at the
entrance, hoping there was still time.

Seconds passed and he took
his arm back and stood up. Blood was running down from his wrist
and pooling on the ground beneath him.

The process of saving a
vampire from certain death meant for another to give him their
blood, but afterwards he would be bonded to them for eternity as
their slave. Not all cases of donating blood worked though, but
this time it did. The repair process started immediately, severed
veins rebuilt themselves, arteries closed, and the flesh pulled its
self together.

‘I want to know how you found us,’ Kaine
said.

The vampire tried to
laugh, but had to stop when he choked on fluids coming up his
throat. A second passed; he swallowed the bile back down and said
in clearer words, ‘You don't know? We had a scout called Longinus,
he has been ere time follo you from hosptal, the piest
girl.’

At that moment, Regina came down the
stairs.

Kaine saw by her facial
expression she was shocked to see him talking to the
enemy.