KC Lumi Rose

Part 5

By the time we got to P& L District Cye Bian made sure his team had everyone out of there. Nothing but a few bums were left hanging around but when they saw me, they ran. It was an eerie feeling walking into P & L, everyone was staring at Wrangler and me. Except for Cye Bian. He was having a drink in one of the bars not paying any attention to us at all. The rest of his team had something else behind their eyes. I couldn't put my finger on it. Wrangler felt it too, she looked at all of them grabbing at her machete slowly.

A tall slender man who worked for Cye Bian walked up to us. His expression was haunting.

"Miss Lumi Rose, Miss Wrangler." he said as he half smiled and looked quickly away holding his arm out for us to follow.

We followed behind him, still watching Cye Bian's team eye us carefully, we couldn't shake the feeling of how weird this was. When he stopped, he sighed and turned to us before moving out of our way. The look in his eyes was almost of sorrow, or maybe pain. I couldn't read it. Still, there was no sign of Cye, he hadn't greeted us yet.

The first clue that something ominous had happened here was the trail of blood and fingers leading a trail to a severed head. The head was perfectly preserved. Her hair was still perfect, in fact, her hair was colored just like mine, pink on one side and blonde on the other, and straight. I looked at Wrangler, her eyes narrowed her mouth scowled, and her face was turning red.

We walked on to see a circle of blood and in that circle was the rest of the body. Chopped up into parts scattered in the circle. Candles illuminated the circle showing there was ancient lettering written around the body. It smelled of incense and dried blood but there was something else, a note addressed to me Miss KC Lumi Rose.

Miss KC Lumi Rose,

One by one we see, we watch. One by one we come, for you. One by one we kill, everyone.  We see your light. Show your light. Come to us and we will stop.

"You're in grave danger Lumi Rose." A deep voice behind me spoke, that sent chills down my spine.

When I turned to him, I couldn't get out of my head. My thoughts threw me back to my camper. His touch, his lips on me kissing my body. I broke out in a sweat. Wrangler nudged me out of my daze. I could tell she was worried about me. About this entire situation. It was horrific. I was jarred from my thoughts.

"Cye, Ummm I guess for once I am a little speechless," I said as I kept staring at him.

He smiled and looked down at his drink circling the ice in the glass.

"I think my sister is behind this. She wants to take over KC as part of her territory, you know I can't let that happen." His voice was so deep and smooth it seduced me. 

"Why on earth would your sister want me dead?"

Cye just smiled and looked past me. It made me stop talking this man had some weird hold over me I couldn't shake it. Wrangler watched the exchange with as much confusion as I was feeling. He took a sip of his drink and looked at me as I watched his Adam's Apple rise and fall as he swallowed. His lips looked soft, wet and kissable even. I brought my fingers to my lips still watching him. I was in a fog; time was moving slowly I looked around me and everyone was still. Even Cye Bian, frozen in front of me. Wrangler frozen next to me. Everyone was frozen, except her.

I looked to see her coming to me gliding through the people.  A dewy pinkish mist surrounded her it almost sparkled. She was moving so elegantly, her dress flowed behind her. Her long white hair glowed floating around her sparkling she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. Her eyes were big and blue, with matching big lips her features were perfection. Her skin was brown with native tattoos as she drifted closer, I could feel the warmth coming from the mist that carried her to me.