Hell

Butterfly trap part 1

    "What happened?" Gio asked. "He passed out after he got a nosebleed." I say. He drops the cup he has been holding and it shatters on the floor.He then asked, "Did you say he got a nosebleed?" I nod. "That is truly unnatural then. He never had any kind of bleeding problem at all. He once had a brick smashed at his head rapidly and after an agonizing minute... the brick shattered. Why would a nosebleed knock him out?" Gio says. "What?" I ask. He seems shocked. I don't know what he is talking about but says, "On his third day some bully had the bright idea to test him. Did not work so he went and tried to kill him to maintain his control over the school. He got Eryk to stand by a wall in plain view of the entire school and bashed his head rapidly with a brick for a minute, but the brick broke... Along with his arm, nose, both legs, and six ribs." I look at him for a bit, but Eryk wakes up and looks worried. "What happened?" I ask. "Tart is back with enough power to make me switch souls with Lance from the past." He says and gets up. His mom wonders back into the room and starts to open her mouth, but Eryk shushes her and walks upstairs. I pass a look to G and walk upstairs after him. I walk around the floors, but can't find him so I go on the roof to see him lying with his head on Aamon's belly while Czarek was resting his head on Eryk's stomach. Aamon and Czarek turn to me with their smiles and go back to just resting. "I find resting with these two the closest thing to grounding myself in this time period and not the past." Eryk says without opening his eyes. "That was your question was it not, Silver?" I hear a voice say. I look around the roof but it's only me, Eryk, Aamon, and Czarek up here. "Why are you confused?" The voice asked again. I look at Eryk who now was smiling along with Aamon while Czarek was staring at me. "Eryk do you hear a voice?" I ask. He laughs and pats Czarek on the head saying, "This puppy here has telepathic powers while the one that I am resting on can speak outright... well that's the wrong description. They can both use telepathy to communicate, but Aamon prefers to speak outright." Czarek stands up and sits in front of me. "I can see why you were confused now. He has more secrets than the Vatican secret archives do." Czarek says. "What?" I say and I hear Eryk laugh. "He means that I tend to withhold information sometimes." He says. It's my turn to laugh as I lay down next to him and Czarek rests his head on my stomach. We lay in peace for two minutes until I see an edge of a ladder land on one side of the roof that has balcony support. "Ugh." I say and Eryk opens an eye to look at the ladder. After a moment his mom climbs up saying, "She told me that she has easy access to the roof, another lie." She looks at us and gets angrier. "What are YOU doing up here?" "Enjoying the breeze that was here moments before you arrived." Eryk says. "Not you, her!" She says. Eryk raises an eyebrow. "I don't know what you are talking about. I'm the only one up here for the past ten minutes." I look at my hand and see that it is enveloped by shadows. "But she is right next... But she was just there..." His mom says looking a little shocked. "Must be the stress you cause yourself. Go back inside and rest for a day... perhaps two." He says. "Yeah... I think that's just what I need..." His mom says as she climbs back down and takes the ladder off the edge. Eryk turns to me and winks saying, "It's good to control shadows." Aamon laughs and Czarek goes up and rests his head on my shoulder, staring outward along the land. "What did you do exactly?" I ask. "I manipulated the shadows we were casting to make it look like you were just a flat shadow on the roof cast by me and Czarek." He says and goes back to resting with his eyes closed. I lay next to him for about an hour and finally ask, "What did you see when you passed out?" "Tart first pushed my spirit back to my corner in his pit and then sent me back to when I first became a guard captain." He says as he waves his hand infront of me and I see a shadowy pool emerge from the stonework. In the pool I see Eryk in armor standing by four others in similar armor. The only difference was that Eryk's armor had a cape and a gold trimmed helmet. "Those were the four that were always by my side. Brandon the bloody, Jackson the one that would always fight first and ask questions later, Anthony who was Jackson's twin but was more controlled and easier to talk to, and Pamela who you know as Perceval." Eryk says and the image fades after a minute. "I had to stand by them in the most impossible cases imaginable. Not even the so called 'Elite Guard' dared to take and we would always be on top of the enemy." He says as he stands up and whistles. Aamon stands up and follows him to his room's balcony. I look at Czarek who is still laying on my shoulder. "He will be your protector from now on Silver. I think you will enjoy his... unique blending ability." Eryk says and goes inside with Aamon. I stare at Czarek for a moment then sit up. He is nearly a five foot dog who seems to be my new protector. "So how do you blend?" I ask and look back at the sunset. When I look back, Czarek shrank into an averaged sized husky with red eyes, similar to Aamon but a bit redder fur. "I do know how to blend in Silver and don't worry I will guard only when you sleep so don't think I will do much throughout the day. I will mostly do what other dogs do... sleep, eat, and go to the conveniently placed park up the street that opened yesterday." Czarek says with a smile. I smile back at him and jump down onto the balcony to Eryk's room. Czarek goes to the other side of the roof where my room is and jumps down. Before I go inside his room I see a car pull up on his driveway and a vampire I thought dead step out. I jump down and land in front of him saying, "What are you doing here, Alpha?" Goddamn it I'm becoming her I think to myself. "Well I came for my bitchy slave. Looks like she came to me instead." He says as he tries to stab me with a syringe. Being a bit stunned I do not dodge and he hits me in my cheek, but I do not feel the pain and he looks shocked. "What?" He says and I realize that the mask was on my face. I smile and call Eryk and say, "Bring the nice angel trap. I found a 'willing' participant for it." "Already there." He says and I see him jump off the balcony with the trap levitating behind him. "Shadow manipulation is really handy." He says and snaps his fingers and we are back in 'the spot' of the forest. He grabs Alpha by the throat and knocks him out. I see now that he has to push all of the needles I saw before into each of the individual ribs. He then proceeds to strap Alpha in a harness and drop the key into a jar filled with highly corrosive acid. "What are the chances he will get out of this?" I ask. "Not one, the key will unlock the harness but as you saw that will do nothing for him because of the traps designed. Hurray he got out of the harness. How will he get needles out of his chest before they rip out his ribs?" Eryk says with a smile and snaps his fingers and I see that the trap was levitating about three feet off the ground with empty bottles lined up around the edges. I raise my eyebrow and he shrugs saying, "I need more wine." "You already out again and I thought Puppy would be able to provide enough for the both of us." I say as the unconscious Alpha begins to come to with a ear piercing screech as the pain of the needles in his ribs hits him full force. I laugh and then begin to explain. "You are strapped into a wonderful toy that Eryk made from the Saw movies called the Angel Trap. You can try and get yourself out of it but would you rather just wait for the toy to activate and it rips out your ribs from the inside out very slowly yet painfully or would you try and save yourself by trying to get the key out of the jar of corrosive acid as your own hand begins to get eaten away by the acid. The choice is yours." Alpha looks at me and Eryk like we are joking and insane. "No bitchy slave of mine would ever dare to harm me nor would she think this would work or scare me. This is all fake the needles maybe real but the rest of it is all fake and you are just lying to me." He says. "HAHAHA! If this was even remotely fake would you think that I would be enjoying watching you suffer as your time is ticking down because at this very moment you only have about two minutes and thirteen seconds to free yourself before the trap activates." I say as horror strikes his face. He laughs and says, "You are just messing with me. This trap is never going to work on me, the Alpha vampire Alexander." I laugh and say, "You don't believe me fine, but you will see or should I...." "Or should you what? Tell me the truth that this is a lie and a joke that you are playing on me so I would let you be free. Well miss bitchy that is never going to happen you are mine and mine alone." He says. I summon Puppy to us and say, "No more like have the second rider of the apocalypse here as proof since he still has those lovely scars from when he was in the trap himself. Also if I were you, I would hurry up because you only got 95 seconds left to try and escape." "He is not a rider of the apocalypse let alone the second rider known as War or Wolf." "Tick-tock you are wasting time pesky vampire. Another thing you are going to make excellent wine in about 60 seconds." Alpha then begins to panic as Puppy shows the scars on his sides and then proves that he is the second rider of the apocalypse by changing into his animal form for a brief moment then changing back into his human form. Puppy then says, "She is not joking. Those two will do anything for what they call 'wine'. That girl is a psychotic bitch who will hold true to every torture she promises you." Puppy then points at me and Eryk. I think back to all of the possible tortures I am going to inflict on Puppy if he ever crosses me. I come out of my thoughts as I see Alpha trying to grab the key out of the jar as his own hand begins to disintegrate into nothing. "3.....2....1..." I shout as the trap begins to rip out Alpha's ribs. I hear the satisfying crack and break in each rib as Alpha's voice rings out in utter horror and pain because he was too late at grabbing the key. I begin to laugh as Alpha begs for the trap to hurry up and finish the job since it seems to be taking a long time to pull his ribs out. Eryk begins to walk towards him and I grab him shaking my head and saying, "Let me have the satisfaction of pumping that pesky vampire of precious wine." Eryk nods and hands me four bottles to fill. I then walk up to Alpha as the trap finally gives away and pulls his ribs off exposing his chest and heart. "You brought this upon yourself. I am just lucky enough to be the one who did it to you with the help of Eryk to get you into the damn thing because I was way too happy to do it myself." I say with a hint of bloodlust, happiness, and evil in my voice as I fill the bottles with his blood by pumping it out of his heart. After I finished the last bottle I take a nice good mouth full of it fresh from his heart as Alpha is way too weak and horrified to even argue. I pull his head close enough for me to say, "Your blood is very good. Nice and sweet with the hint of fear.You are mine and Eryk's new winery. You will never see daylight or the night sky again." I move to see his face and he is horrified. I being to cut some of Alpha's meat off of him for Aamon and Czarek as I say, "Eryk I am keeping a bottle or two for myself. He still has a couple more bottles left in him that you can get if you want anymore. I want him in one of the prison cells chained to the wall. As for you Puppy this does not change the fact you will still be a winery yourself, but that you just won't be as often until you piss me off got it?" I ask. I look back to Eryk and see that he is standing with his hand on Alexander's heart and saying something I don't understand. After a moment the trap resets itself and he is fully healed. "Why did you do that?" I ask. He points behind me and I see a four story high supply of empty wine bottles. "Gotta be sure they last a week." He says with a smile. A couple of glorious hours later he puts all the wine in the cellar and goes for a walk with Aamon at his heels. "It's a glorious day to be a god, would you not agree?" I hear a voice ask from behind me, a voice I know all too well not to smile at. I turn to see Alucard smiling behind me. "I still don't understand how you are a god, but yes it is." I say. "You have a strange look on the world." Says a voice I have not heard yet. I turn to see a blond girl in a green sweater standing behind me. She looked to be fourteen. "Who are you?" I ask. "My name's Sally and Jack sent me here to learn more... unique ways to satisfy my recess." Sally answers. "Strange, but ok." I say. "Never heard of you from Jack, are you new?" I ask. Alucard laughs and says, "Consider her a Jane Jr." I nod and lead the way inside the house.