The Pentagram Child: Part 2 (Afterlife Saga Book 5) (25 page)

“Yes, quite sure.” And then slammed her door shut. I poked my head out from behind the recess and Pip said,

“She’s in there.” I had to laugh.

“I know Pip.”

“So what’s the plan Stan?” She asked following me and I stopped and held her back by the shoulders.

“My plan is to try and sneak in there and see what’s she up to, your plan is to inform the others.”

“Wow, Big boss man King is going to shit rainbows when he knows you’re still alive!” I almost choked on that mental image.

“Not unless he’s taken Unicorn pills, now is there any other way into that room?”

“Sure, it’s the state room and has access through that door for the maids and other poor lackeys there to doing the bidding of posh twonker donks and toffee nosed tw...” I held up my hand cutting off her rant before it got too explicit.

“I’ve got ya. Ok, so I came with a few …uh…friends.”

“You mean biker dudes that turn into rip your face off dogs right?” Wow, she was good.

“Yeah, that and a cowboy who’s not in fancy dress but don’t ask. I asked them to cover the exits in case she runs. But I need to know, have you seen Seth?” Pip frowned at me and scratched her green hair that was all in plaited bunches with the blue ends all curly hanging down and bouncing with her erratic movements.

She looked utterly adorable.

But this, combined with what she was wearing, was just something else. It was a short dress with a tight top that moulded to her little breasts and had tiny plastic toys attached to the black material, ones that looked as if they had been collected from Kinder surprise eggs.

But it was the skirt part that was really amazing and took me back to my childhood. It was made up of massive material flowers and each one was a different 80’s cartoon. From the ones I could see there were He-Man, She-Ra, Jem, Gummi Bears, Rainbow Bright, Snoopy, Carebears, My Little Pony (both original and new) even ones like Galaxy High School, Chip n Dale and Muppet Babies. In fact it looked like she had made each flower from kid’s old bedding sets throughout the 80’s.

“You mean the dude that’s all loco about Pinky?”  She answered and I dragged my eyes away from her dress.

“You mean RJ…he’s still got RJ with him?!” I said getting panicky and completely forgetting this factor when Aurora first mentioned his name.

“Uhh well Yeah! The dude won’t let the righteous babe out of his sight.” She said this like it was obvious.

“So he’s here, you’ve seen him?” Pip cocked her hip to the side and thought for a moment and then her eyes got wide like it had just come to her. I followed where her gaze went and suddenly my heart started pounding.

“Don’t tell me.”

“Sorry sister, but your Pinky promise pal is in there, with both of those vipers.” I closed my eyes and prayed for RJ to be alright. I could only hope that my time wasted out here hadn’t been the time needed for RJ to get hurt. I felt bad enough that I was the whole reason she was in this mess to begin with.

Now I just needed to figure out a way to get her out safe and survive doing so.

“Ok, new plan, forget my solo mission, it’s time to call for the Cavalry.” Pip stood to attention, gave me a salute and said,

“You can count on me Tootie Sargent!” And then she ran off down the stairs wearing a pair of baby pink wedge shoes, with unicorn horns sticking up on the front surrounded with white fur. I was still shaking my head wondering how she walked in those things let alone ran in them.

I waited till she was out of sight and then decided it was now or never. I opened the door, walked into the room and immediately heard voices. I crept through the room after a quick scan to make sure I was alone and walked over to the adjoining door where the voices were coming from. I pressed myself to the panelled door and waited to see if I could make out what was being said but was disappointed to find I couldn’t. I was also disheartened to find I couldn’t make out RJ’s voice and I could only hope and pray that she was still alive.

Well there was only one way to find out.

So very slowly I turned the handle, moving it by the tiniest amount so as not to be detected and then finally managed to unlatch the door enough to push it. I was just thankful nothing squeaked or creaked but by the time I opened the door and saw what was happening in the next room, nothing could have prepared me for what I saw…

Violation.                       

Chapter 68

Fighting For A Homecoming

Inside the room I watched in horror as Seth was chained to a metal bed and a naked Aurora was sat astride him riding his manhood with obvious pleasure. Seth looked strange and half drugged as he kept falling in and out of his demon side and shaking his head erratically. One thing was blindingly obvious and that was Aurora was taking him against his will.

She was raping him.

I wanted to shout blue murder to get her to stop and leave him alone but I knew I had to be careful, especially since she had a gun lay next to her on the bed.

“STOP IT! LEAVE HIM ALONE!” RJ shouted from the corner of the room where she was tied up. She had seen me and the first thing I noticed was the cut bleeding on her lip and a nasty lump on her forehead as if she had been struck. Her makeup was streaming down her face in black lines like she had been crying angry tears.

“Silence or I will shoot you and it might ruin the moment!” Aurora threatened picking up the gun and pointing it at her as she continued to ride the unwilling Seth. He must have had some knowledge of what was going on because he shouted up at her,

“NO! Don’t hurt her or you will never get what you want!” I gritted my teeth and dug my nails into my palm to stop myself from racing in there and trying to save the day but I just couldn’t risk it. I didn’t know what exactly she wanted, although it should have been quite obvious considering the act. But then again, I doubted she went through all this just to get her rocks off with someone she had taken a fancy to. Either way I couldn’t risk RJ’s life, not again. So I had no other choice than to wait for others to get here.

  “Oh but I think I know what you want! Then so be it, have your little punk.” Aurora said after looking between the two both trying to save the other. Then she started laughing and threw her head back and by the time she looked down again she had morphed in to RJ. I sucked in a sharp breath which was masked by RJ’s gasp of shock.

“No…no…you’re not her…you’re not…” Seth kept repeating to himself over and over and closing his eyes as tight as they would shut.

“Look at me, it’s me…just open your eyes lover.” Aurora cooed in RJ’s voice and just as he was about to open his eyes RJ shouted,

“IT’S NOT ME! IT’S A TRICK!” But this just ended with her finding the curtain she was tied next to wrapped around her, preventing her from speaking. I almost called out in fear she wouldn’t be able to breath but the material stopped just covering her mouth and leaving her free to breathe through her nose.

“Now look at me and I will show you what you truly want.” Aurora said and it was messing with my head let alone what it must be doing to poor Seth. She rode him harder making him cry out and open his eyes. This was his first mistake as it was obvious he couldn’t hold back his desire for the fantasy. Oh yeah, he had it bad for my friend alright.

The real RJ’s eyes were wide and tear filled making me want to run over there and comfort my friend but I was rendered helpless.

“That’s it lover, I can feel how much you want me, how much you want this body.” She touched her pert little breasts and then ran her hands up into her pink tousled hair and Seth remained as his demon form this time.

RJ looked even more shocked and I was surprised she hadn’t passed out by now. Although I suppose this wasn’t anything compared to the battle of the dead she had witnessed. Ok so I could now see a long future of paying out some hefty psychiatric fees but let’s face it, it was the least I could do after this shit storm I had landed in her lap.

I wanted to look away from the disgraceful act but when she put a vial of something blue to Seth’s lips I needed to know what she was doing. She dripped it into his mouth and he looked so lost and deep into the lies she was feeding him he didn’t even notice. Then she downed the rest of it, swallowed and eyes that weren’t her own rolled back up into a face that didn’t belong to her either.

“Yes…make me yours, join with me, fill me…fill me!” Aurora shouted and Seth gripped on to the chains that held him pulling enough that they snapped. I thought he would take this moment to escape or at least do me a favour and snap her bitch neck but he was too far gone from this world. Whatever she had given him had made him truly believe it wasn’t anyone but RJ he was making love too. He flipped her over and hammered into her quickly finding his release.

Aurora screamed and quickly transformed back to herself making Seth instantly realise his mistake. He flew off the bed backwards and shook his head over and over as if it was a nightmare he was trying to banish from his mind. He scrabbled over to RJ and pulled her huddled form to him making sure she was alright. The shackles still encased his wrists and the lengths of chain he had snapped still hung down from them.

“I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry…”He started chanting as he held onto RJ as tight as he could fearful if he ever let her go. I looked back to the culprit and as soon as I knew that RJ was safe I made my move. She had just picked up her dress and was bending down when I ran in the room and grabbed the gun she had left on the bed.

“What the…!” Aurora started to say but stopped when she saw it was me…that or a mad biker clown that had just sprung into the room and was now pointing a gun at her. Any other time and I would have laughed just thinking about what a sight I must have made.

“Don’t move bitch!” I shouted like something out of a bad cop show. Aurora laughed and said,

“And who do you think you are that you will be able to stop me!?” I was about to say when it was actually RJ that answered her.

“Keira…is that you?” I smiled at her and that was when Aurora dropped the evil villain victory look for one of pure shock.

“NO! It can’t be…but…it’s…it’s impossible!”

“Not for this Scouser!” I shouted back and whipped off my glasses, throwing them to one side so she could see my face and I had to admit, I felt like a bad ass!

“Ahhh!” She screamed and threw herself at me, knocking the gun from my hand and tackling me to the ground. I twisted before she could kick me and stuck out my foot tripping her up so she landed flat on her back. Then I jumped on her, straddling her waist and started punching her in the face.

“You want sex! Buy a vibrator you raping bitch!” I shouted in her face as I lifted up her head by the hair and smashing the back of her head back into the floor. I had lost my temper before but this was something else.

“Help her!” I heard RJ shout to the still naked Seth and his response would be something later I would laugh at.

“I’m not sure she needs help, Rachel.” Did he just call her by her first name Rachel? Thinking this I received an elbow to the face which threw me to the side allowing Aurora to get up and run off. I got up and shook my head at the same time running from the room in hot pursuit feeling my adrenaline kick in like a drug called kick ass!

“Come back here you coward!” I shouted as I followed her out of the next room and back into the hallway. She disappeared down the staircase and raced around the corner down the next lot of steps into the crowd. She looked back to see me still coming for her only she ran straight into an angry Imp holding a folded chair like a bat.

“Take a seat, Bitch!” She said as she let it rip, smacking the entire chair into her face, knocking her clean off her feet. Her nose burst and now, added to the black eye I had given her, she wasn’t looking quite so beautiful anymore. She got up on wobbly feet and I don’t know what came over me but I leapt off the staircase straight for her. I flew through the air to the sound of Pip screaming,

“FOR SPARTAAA!”

And then I landed on her. We both went down and skidded forward as the crowd parted. She tried to crawl away but I reached out and grabbed her ankle and yanked her back. I was like a woman possessed. It was as though all those times I had wanted to scratch her eyes out and strangle her with her own hair had all come rushing back to this moment and I just couldn’t stop.

I found myself on top of her again and it was a vague feeling that my knuckles were hurting from punching a face.

“Here, use this!” Pip said pulling my shoulder and handing me something pink. I didn’t even think I just grabbed it, raised it high and was about to bring it down on her head full force when I heard the one thing on this earth that could stop me…

Draven.

“Keira?” He said my name and I paused mid murdering action. I looked up and saw him stood at the end of the room with the crowd parted down the middle. I had no clue as to what I must have looked like as I remained sat on his ex-girlfriend amazingly withmy wig still in place, if not a littl
e
skew-whiff. I also looked up to see what I had been about to smash into Aurora’s bloody face and found to my horror I was still holding above my head a giant penis shaped piñata.

I remained frozen in position for a few more seconds, panting and very much like a naughty deer caught in head lights.

“Uh…hey.” I said not knowing what else to say considering this wasn’t the beautiful, running over the meadows into each other’s arms to the sound classical music scenario I had dreamed of. No not especially when quickly after he said my name all the rest of the crew came rushing in and stopped dead when everyone saw me the way I was.

“She found the baddie.” Pip said defending me and dropping the next item she had been ready to pass me if the giant paper penis filled with treats hadn’t done the job. I looked to the side and then up at her saying,

“Really…? An inflatable boob?” She shrugged her shoulders and then offered me a hand up.

“What were we gonna hit her with next, a sex shop?” I muttered dryly.

“Maybe.” She muttered back and Aurora had just started to try to get up when Pip bent down, pulled her up by the dress and said,

“Bang Bitch!” Then cracked her across the face with her fist, putting my punches to shame as she let her go to flop back to the floor now unconscious.

I looked back up to see Draven was still clearly in shock and
I
pulled the wig off my head, letting my hair fall down my back before I said,

“Sod it!” And then I ran at him and finally got my meadow moment. He opened his arms at the last moment and picked me up as I crashed into him. I burst into tears as I felt his arms band around me and held me to him.

“You’re here, you’re really here.”
He whispered into my hair and I cried harder.
I heard everyone around us cheering and clapping at the sight of our reunion and I smiled into his neck.

“I’m here, I’m home.”
I whispered back and it felt like long blissful moments that I wanted to cling onto for forever. Just being back in his arms, knowing it was now all over made it finally worth it.

And then the music started and someone gave an old soul a guitar,

So a cowboy could start singing…

As I travel here in this world, well I’m just a pilgrim passing through,

But Abraham told me of a city, where God’s foundation’s standing true

When I come to the crossing of that river, don’t you weep because I’m gone

Just tell all my friends and my loved ones, that I finally made it home.

Then Bill stopped singing to play his solo on the guitar and I felt Draven squeeze me tighter to him and we both looked sideways at Bill when he started back up again.

Now I can almost see my mansion, but this mortal body clouds my view

Day by day it’s getting clearer, the life of glories shining through

When I come to the crossing of that river, don’t you weep because I’m gone

Just tell all my friends and my loved ones, that I finally made it home

Just tell all my friends and my loved ones, that I finally made it home.

It was a beautiful song and one sung with such soul that it nearly had me balling all over again. I knew it was about death but for me and for Bill, it was simply about coming home.

And like I had said before,

Draven was my home.