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“The Blood Pact”

**~The Dark Void~**

Nemesis grips the small blade in her hands as she flings it towards an oncoming creature. The decaying zombie moans out and collapses on the ground dead bleeding, the foul yellow liquid oozes from its ribcage. Nick makes a disgusted face and glances at Nemesis.

“No matter how many times I see those things die, I still get grossed out.”

Nemesis smirks and stares at the shining metal now covered in a sticky slimy yellow and clear liquid and places it back on the clip in her belt. “Yeah well I never get tired of killing those things.”

“Let’s go then. Before a herd of them comes back.” Nick states, smiling at her and gently tugging on her arm. The two walk further down the dense forest, only the soft ragged breathing of theirs echoed in the forest.

“Seriously why did you get me out of there? Why kill that chick back there to piss off the vampires. Liam will have your head for it.” Nemesis states, stepping over broken branches littered on the ground.

Nick sighs and leading the way down the dark pathway, he maintains his gaze focused ahead: “I needed to save you. Too many lives have died in our hands or in the hands of the society. Plus, just because I’m part of a vampire doesn’t mean I don’t have a conscious, I’m still human you know. And honestly after playing along for a while, Kindel started to get to me. She was gonna kill you and I couldn’t let that happen. You deserve to live, not be involved in this crazy mess that still has me confused about it.”

Nemesis not buying the whole innocent act kept walking in silence.

“You don’t believe me do you?”

Nemesis snorts slightly and rolls her lights eyes, “Oh gee, what could have told you that?”

Nick smiles softly and sighs, “Believe what you wanna believe. My actions speak louder than words.”

Nemesis lets his words sink in as they continued trekking through the decaying forest. After reaching a dead end, the two spot a small warehouse where they decided to rest for the time being.

The rickety wooden door hinges groan loudly as Nick opens the door to enter. Pushing aside some cobwebs, both creep into the warehouse and close the door behind them. Only darkness seems to be surrounding them as they blindly walk to the side of the shed. Nemesis bangs into a desktop and hears the clatter of metal objects on the table.

“Oomf. Ouch, I think there’s some weapons over here.” Nemesis grumbles, rubbing her injured knee. Nick stumbles over blindly grabbing a hanging cord that entangled around his fingers.

“What the…” Nick grumbles, yanking on the cord that in captured his fingers, suddenly a bright yellow light infiltrates the room. Squinting, Nick brushes his hands over a sharp edge metal weapon, a katana.

Nemesis smiles and grabs a hook sword that curved at one end and held a handle to grab the sword. The sharp edge sword glittered in the new found light. “This is where Demetrius must have stored the weapons we trained with.” She whispers, grabbing the weapons and angrily narrowing her eyes at the thought of Demetrius betraying her.

“I say we store up: those things out there are getting stronger as they last and we’ll need the high tech stuff to stop ‘em. It seems bullets aren’t working for them now.” Nick whispers curiously, “We’ll get Demetrius. Don’t worry about it.” He noted the uneasiness that shrouded Nemesis and he hoped he can help calm her down.

Nemesis glanced up at him for moment, her eyes clouded in rage before the soft blue and green swirls in her eyes died down. They quickly grabbed some daggers and swords. Nemesis smiles and pulls out a steel fan- her favorite weapon. It seemed so innocent and deadly all at the same time. Nick picks up jojutsu: a wooden pole used for fighting and tucks it onto the back of his black trench coat. They quickly gather their new weapons in silence when suddenly the dusty ceiling window above them shatters open, as a creature slams towards their direction. Quickly, Nick and Nemesis dash out the door of the small shed in time to hear the zombie crash and die from its fall.

“Oh nice move dummy.” Nemesis murmurs rolling her eyes as she steadies herself holding a Kama: a curved hooked metal blade sword used for the killing of vampires. She smiles knowing that she can always test this weapon out with a vampire standing in front of her. Nick glances at her nervously and smiles,

“Wh, what’s up?”

“Oh nothing. Just excited about using this new Kama. You know this was used back in the olden days to kill off those of your species.” Nemesis hisses out, inching closer to Nick as Nick stands straight and raises his eyebrows.

“So what are you saying?” Nick questions her, his pupils suddenly filling to a frightening blood red. Nemesis stops and gasps as she Nick smile, “What’s wrong? You act like you never saw a vampire before?”

Nemesis shakes her head and points, “Your, your eyes!” She squeaks out, pointing at him.

Nick simply smiles and blinks his eyes, the blood fill pupils vanish quickly as it came returning to the happy sapphire orbs that females are drawn to, “Watch out. Baal is hunting for you. I might not be watching you all the time, just so you know.”

Nemesis narrows her eyes and straighten up, “I’m tough enough, I don’t need a man to defend me.”

Nick simply nods his head once and smiles, “Good, you’re tough enough anyway. You practically kicked my behind back at the society. I’m sure you can handle yourself.”

“Thanks. So let’s go.” Nemesis smiles and murmurs, walking pass large redwood trees, where suddenly she was toppled to the ground by something heavy that landed from behind her. She tries screaming but Nick continuing his walking didn’t hear her or turned around cause another zombie was close to clobbering him. Nick who was busy fighting with the beast didn’t hear as poor nemesis struggles with Baal.

Baal stares down at his prize, he longed to capture a woman and intake their living liquid, he never had the opportunity to sip a woman’s blood for they were always screamers and he would get caught, but this one in particular seemed more calm than other females. Baal passes his large thick cinnamon hands over Nemesis’s pale bruised neck. Nemesis groans and is flipped onto her back so that she’s staring at the face of her killer. Baal smiles and passes his fingers over her soft cheery lips, “Shhhh, this won’t take long.” His fangs emerge as his dark eyes stare down at her. He straddles her and holds her down with his arms on either side as he leans close to her neck. She tries to move but fails miserably as his heavy weight left her immobile beneath him. She struggles to move, to throw him off but nothing was working. She freezes, chills striking the very core of her frighten soul, she was gonna die, if Nick didn’t throw this vampire off her. She seemed frozen in horror as Baal was a centimeter away from breaking into her neck. Suddenly Baal looks into her eyes as he leans over and smiles. His eyes roll to the back of his head suddenly as he lands dead on her, his heavy body practically crushing her. Nemesis takes a deep breath and with the very little strength she has in her body, she kicks him off her and sits up to see what happened to Baal. It seemed Baal was struck with an arrow that must have hit Nick’s body before hitting him. She turns around to see Nick wounded lying on his stomach, clutching his bleeding arm to his chest. A small trial of the dark blood trails down the side of his lips as he gasps out in pain.

“Nick!” She chokes out, crawling over to him painfully, “Damn, what happened to you? Didn’t you see where the arrow came from?”

Nick shakes his head and coughs roughly, spitting out blood. “Here, let me get you up. And thanks again for saving me.”

Nick coughs and shakes from the chills of his wounds, “Welcome. That would make it the second time now wouldn’t it?”

Nemesis smiles, as much as she wanted to kill him there was something about him that proved he was trust worthy. After all he saved her once again, she was beginning to consider Nick along with the others in his group were blinded and fooled to take part in the plan. But that still didn’t justified her brother’s death. She doubted that she can easily forgive and move on, a part of her family was taken from her and she needed to get some form of revenge, her brother’s death will not go unpunished.

Nick kneels down in utter agony and cries out in pain as his stomach was badly wounded. Nemesis gulps and knew she needed him alive, she couldn’t go out on without him for there were too many zombies and vampires called out into the night after her blood and she couldn’t kill all of them alone. For a minute she was glad he was suffering for his past misdeeds that her poor brother had to be feeling. And she watches Nick bleed slowly as he cries out to forget him and go on.

“Go! Leave. They want you! Forget me!” Nick shouts to her.

Nemesis was ready to bolt out except her conscious came back to her strongly, “Dammit.” She growls as she grabs Nick and stands him up, “I can’t leave without you.”

“Yes you can!”

“No, now shut up and move!” Nemesis hisses, holding the heavily bleeding man in her arms.

Nick cries out as pain begins shooting down his body, “AHhhhh, damn. I can’t walk, it hurts.”

“Be a man and live.” Nemesis growls, clutching Nick as he drags his feet onto the ground. They slowly make their way down a dark pathway onto another road hopefully where they can rest and heal.
~*~

Howie watches in horror as the bullet slams out the pistol and heads to him. Howie ducks down enough for the bullet to gaze pass his ear and hit a wall behind him. Liam growls and steps closer to Howie as the ground continues to shake violently. Kevin, Brian and Cabal scream out as they remain hanging from the sharp spikes that protruded from the floor now. Liam grabs Howie by the throat leaving the poor man to thrash and struggle in his grip. Smiling, Liam laughs and raisies the pistol to Howie forehead, pressing the cold head of the gun to Howie’s warm flesh. Suddenly Liam sees something in Howie’s eyes and drops the gun, letting go of Howie and scanning around the room in fright.

“How, how can it be?!” Liam shouts nervously, backing away from the man who was lost in confusion. Liam gazes at Howie once again and shivers, bolting out of the room from a nearby latch hidden beneath the ground. Howie chases after him but stops to see Brian, Kevin and Cabal hanging from the spikes, “I’ll get you guys down.”

“No forget it, don’t worry about it. Just go after Liam. He knows something and it deals with you. Go after him!” Cabal yells, his legs swinging in mid-air as his jacket remained intact to an edge of a iron sharp pole. Howie sighs and nods his head, jumping into the latch to go after Liam. He jumps into the cold windy hallway that lead beneath the latch and slowly followed it to the end. There at the end stood a large arch iron door and Howie assumed that this is where Liam must have ran to. Thoughts swirled to his head about what exactly did Liam saw when he gazed at him, why did he run away and shout out in surprise after seeing him. He was confused, was his past something he couldn’t’ remember yet Liam does. How would that make sense? He was tired of being in a constant state of confusion and always feeling lost since the whole Crimson Society came into place. He needed to find out what exactly made Liam so frightened when he looked at Howie’s face.

Howie grabs the cold copper handle and pulls it open to see the door managed to ajar. The door was much too heavy to completing open all the way so Howie managed to squeeze through the small slot the door and enter the room. It was highly extravagant room, with beautiful pure crystal white chandeliers hanging from the delicate white and golden swirled painted ceiling. The room was large and beautifully carpeted with a rich dark red that brought out the soft and radiant beauty. The white patterned walls of delicate swirls in gold, reflected the beauty of the room with large portraits hanging around the room. Howie sighs and gazes to see if Liam was there and sure enough Liam was crouched in the corner of the room, on his knees pleading for mercy. Howie utterly confused, walks further into the room and kneels close to Liam. Liam flinches and backs away, staring at him, “Get away from me! Its impossible! You can’t be alive! Not after all this time!”

Howie shakes his head and gulps, “Look I don’t know who you think I am but this is getting crazy.”

Liam takes a deep breath and for moment, Howie thought it was Nick from the profile. “Liam. What’s going on?”

“It’s over. It’s over. I lose.” Liam whispers in a quiet chant, shaking his head slowly.

“Answer my question.” Howie whispers, the goose bumps pricking his arms.

“Have you looked at yourself in the mirror lately?” Liam whispers, shuddering as he kicks a small piece of broken glass over to the edge of Howie’s boots. Howie glances down and sees his own reflection. Shaking his head, he shrugs his shoulders,

“I don’t understand. Are you afraid of me?”

Liam gasps and takes a deep breath, “Cabal was smart in bringing you here. He knew I couldn’t do anything without your blood, but I don’t need your blood. You are who we’ve been looking for all this time.”

Howie gulps and watches Liam straighten up and stands before him, “Beside being the chosen one, Howie, you are who made us who we are. All this time, the history of Dagon and hear you are standing before me as I speak. I never thought I would see you again. But you’re here. And I’m glad.”

Howie scared at this point, rapidly shakes his head and backs away from Liam, “No! No! I don’t know what you’re talking about. This isn’t making any sense.”

Liam’s eyes cloud over, the red blood filling into his pupils, “Father, you came back. Welcome Dagon. Welcome home.”

Howie’s heart patters rapidly as he stumbles back, “What are you talking about?! I’m not him! I’m Howie. I’m human. You can’t tell me I’m something that started a lineage of horrific killers!”

Liam smiles, “My dear father, its in your eyes, I can’t forget a feeling like that. Your eyes can see into my dead soul, your memory has vanished, but I promise you father that tonight it will all come back.”

Howie stares at the psychotic man and dashes out the room, whatever possessed that man to make such a horrible accusations send chills down Howie’s spine. Howie runs down the hallway and out the latch, back into the room where the spikes were. He looks up and realizes that Cabal, Brian and Kevin have somehow managed to escape and runs out the room to an empty doorway where the spikes were beginning to descend back into the ground. Howie leaps over the sharp spikes and runs down the red hallway to find the others. He needed to get the hell out of here, the people in here where not well in the head.
~*~

“I have a question, when you die, will you scream?” Nairobi states.

A.J. grips Damaris by the hand and gulps, “Look, I’m sure you two want to be alone, how about me and Damaris just leave and you guys can have your time alone.”

Orion laughs and holds out his hands, blocking A.J.’s way, “Oh nice, but we have business to take care of and that woman you have that will be our dessert after we rip her flesh off. So how about we make a deal and hand her over to us.”

“Uh, you know what. No. No that won’t work, see ‘cause I already have plans for her and killing her is not it.” A.J. smiles nervously as Orion towers over him.

“Really now, you don’t say? Well I don’t care about your plans. You’re in this building and under Liam’s orders: she will die. No human can leave this place and know what goes on inside here. We can‘t take that risk.” Orion growls, his large dark chocolate hands grips his two broad swords, one in each hand.

Damaris gulps and shakes her head as she feels Nairobi grab her from behind roughly. Nairobi leans down, her blood fill eyes gleam as her fangs come out, “No one will leave this place alive unless you’re one of us. And the last I checked this little woman isn’t one of us. Now Alex move aside, we will dine on her blood tonight.”

“Not if I put a stop to it.” Kevin states, holding an iron blade and swinging it over to Orion. Orion backs away as Brian jumps in front of Nairobi and pulls out a dagger ready to slice her. She backs away and laughs as she throws a punch and hits his jugular. Brian moves in time before her punch made full on contact and he smiles, stabbing her leg with a dagger. She screams out and grabs Brian by the nape of his neck, throwing him brutally against the wall. Brian cringes in pain and slides down the wall as Nairobi comes back for another hit.

Meanwhile, Kevin swings the iron blade at Orion as Orion dodges and moves away. Cabal appears down the hallway and grabs Damaris as A.J. is left to help Brian out. Cabal grabs a frightened Damaris and directs her out of the closest window. Cabal crashes the window and gazes down at the high height of the building. “This is hurt when we land, but its better we jump here than die in here.”

Damaris gulps and closes her eyes, “I don’t care! Just get me out of here!” And Cabal sighs, clutching Damaris near him,

“Ok, ready when you are.”

And Damaris nods her head as they both leap out the window, both of them escaping the tower in mere seconds.
~*~

Howie runs down the hallway and hears the loud crashing of the fighting that erupted. Howie takes a deep breath as he sees Kevin wounded horribly on his ribcage. He sees Orion holding what seemed like a large blade ready to slam it down on Kevin. Gasping, he sees a large puddle of blood seeping from Kevin’s side. Nairobi had already hurt Brian to unconsciousness and A.J. didn’t stand a chance against her. Suddenly Howie gripped the only weapon he could find on his way out of Liam’s room, a harpoon. Flinging the harpoon out, it snapped into Orion’s lower back, sending a death-defying scream that shattered the thin glass windows. Orion growls in agony and turns around, yanking the harpoon and sending Howie to fly towards him. “Big mistake buddy! You’re dead now!” Orion growls, his thick fingers grasp around Howie’s neck ready to break it. And Howie gasps as poor Kevin who was too weak in pain slumps painfully on the ground. Howie averted his eyes to Brian and A.J. who were unfortunately knocked out from Nairobi’s attacks. She watches with a smile on her face until her mouth drops open to see an iron blade slam through the abdomen of Orion. Howie looks to see Kevin painfully pushing a sword into Orion’s stomach. Orion growls and throws Howie on the ground roughly as he slams Kevin onto the wall, pulling the sword out of him. Smiling, he throws the bloody sword on the floor and faces Kevin. “You can’t kill me. Only the higher powers can touch me and you’re not it.”

Howie smiles as and idea ran through his head, he only hoped it would work. He struggles to stands up and crawls over to where Brian and A.J. were lying on the floor unconscious. Smiling, he knew this idea would have to work. “Higher powers huh? Let’s see how that works.” He whispers to himself as Orion chats to Nairobi about depositing the Boys bodies back into the room where the pattern to open the gates of Hell were at.

Howie gulps and shakes his head knowing this was going to be some kind of war to get out of here. He only hoped Cabal and Damaris made it out safely and hopefully he can join them.
~*~

Cabal sighs and slowly jump down the next ledge finally reaching the ground, “Come on Damaris, one more ledge and we’re out of here.”

Damaris jumps down and lands on her feet as they both look at the menacing tower that loom over head of them. “Where’s Nemesis?”

“It seems the one of the guys helped her escape, if anything she’s far from here as we talk.” Cabal states as they begin their trek down the pathway and into the forest where only thirty minutes ago, Nick and Nemesis had been.

After walking for what seemed like hours to them, Cabal sniffs the air and his eyes light up. “They’re around here somewhere, I smell one of their blood. Someone’s hurt.”

Damaris gasps and tugs on her dark locks, “Please don’t let it be Nemesis.” And they both run down the road to see two familiar figures sitting on a hefty boulder besides the vacant road. The night sky provided very little light as they reached the two people.

“Nemesis? Is that you?” Damaris whispers as Nemesis lifts her head up in surprise.

“Damaris?! Oh My God! I found you! We’re in trouble Nick’s badly hurt. I was gonna leave him, God how I wanted to but I started guilty. But it doesn’t matter, I found you guys or should I say the other way around! I’m so glad you’re ok!” Nemesis blurts out quickly, throwing her blood stained arms around her friend. Cabal smiles and watches as the two women embrace.

“Oh man I thought you were dead when they took you.” Damaris cries out.

“No, No! I made it out. It seems the Boys had a guilty conscious and have planned to fool the entire Dark Falls Society by playing along with them. One of them is dead, Kindel. Nick killed her and just a few minutes ago, he killed off Baal.” Nemesis whispers cradeling a shivering Nick who was turning blue from the lack of blood that he was losing.

Cabal sighs and brushes his hands over Nick’s fair face, “He needs blood now. He lost too much during his fight. He’ll die in thirty minutes if he doesn’t get any blood now.”

Nemesis sighs and shakes her head, “I’m not giving him mine’s. He caused enough Hell in my life, I’m not helping him to that extent.”

“Well that just leaves you Da…” Cabal is cut off by Damaris,

“Oh no no. That’s not funny.” She shivers, stepping closer to get a look at Nick who was gagging, he’s breathing becoming ragged. He was slowly losing color to his skin as his eyes start rolling to the back of his head,

“Damaris now!” Cabal growls, staring at her as she thinks about it. Should she help her enemy or let him die like he should? At least at the moment, Nick seemed like the enemy and according to Nemesis, she wasn’t thrill about Nick.
~**~

**~To Be Continued…~**