Page 53 of Lucifer's Revenge
“No, you bitch, I’m not. I’m going to make sure she goes back where she belongs. I’m going to carve a pentagon on her stomach, raise the demons from hell, and send her where she belongs. If you can’t stand the sight of blood, then maybe you need to leave.”
Sally reached up, wiped the blood off her cut lip, and glared at him. “You could have told me, you didn’t have to cut her fucking clothes off.”
“Swear at me one more time, and you’ll be joining her.” Michael glared at her, and then pulled a small pocket knife from his pocket.
“Wait,” Brenda said as she held out her hand to stop him. When he turned his ire onto her, she held up her hands, but didn’t back off. “I agree with your plan, but if it doesn’t work, and we get caught, we don’t want the charges of assault against us. If you cut her, that’s what it will be. I don’t know this bitch, but I have a feeling she would press charges against us.”
“She will,” Sally said as she looked down at Lilith with a sneer. “She thinks her shit doesn’t stink.” She looked at her former friend with a sneer. “As much as I want to help you cut her, Michael, I believe Brenda may be right on this.” She looked up and nodded when Brenda produced several red candles with the flames glowing. It took some time, but the three of them were able to make a bright red pentagram on Lilith’s torso. Once it was completed, the women stepped back, holding the burning candles, and Michael went to Lilith’s head.
He raised his arms above his own head, closed his eyes, and chanted quietly. After about two minutes, the chant became louder, and the women joined in. With his eyes still closed, henodded and as the women continued to chant, he spoke, “Fallen angel, Lucifer, I call for you to come get this night demon and bring her back into your fold.” Before he could say anything else, he opened his eyes, screamed at the top of his lungs, and fell backward, but not before emptying his bladder and bowels at the sight before him, hitting his head when he landed.
Chapter 23
Sally and Brenda looked at each other, then to where Michael had looked and screamed in terror at the sight before them. Standing at Lilith’s feet was Lucifer himself. Instead of passing out, they tried to run, but were quickly captured, restrained with their hands behind their backs, and because of their screams, someone put a gag over their mouths.
“He alive?” Lucius asked Bandit as he lifted his chin toward the man lying on the ground. No one moved until Bandit checked his neck for a pulse, then he looked up and grinned. “Yep, he’ll probably have one hell of a headache for a few days, but he’s alive.”
Lucius looked around, and nodded in satisfaction when Vampire, both the man with that club name, and dressed as one because of the makeup, removed his cape and draped it over Lilith’s body. Everyone waited for Bandit to check for her pulse and as soon as he closed his eyes and nodded, Luc jumped to action.
He looked around wildly and saw his entire club there, he pointed to the strikers. “Run back and get a truck. I’m not waiting for a fucking ambulance.” When it looked like they would argue, he shook his head. “We’ll get to the fucking hospital before the ambulance even arrives here. We’ll meet you at the property line, make sure you have Prospect Joey with you, he’s going to the hospital with us.” When the three men took off at a dead run back toward the bar, Lucius turned toward Lilith, laying out on a gigantic tree stump, and slowly approached her. He saw she was out cold, and bent down to kiss her on the side of the mouth. With his hand on her forehead, he whispered in her ear. “Hang on, I’m here, we’ll get you to help.” He reachedbeneath her and gently lifted her, cradling her in his arms. When he heard something, he turned to stare at the two women.
“I hope you have good lawyers,” was all he said to them, then turned and strode away with Lilith in his arms. Bandit ran up to him, and stuffed something in the back pocket of his leather pants.
“What?”
“It’s a baggie with a cloth in it. Tell the doctors it might be chloroform.”
“Got it,” he said, and realized several people were with him and when he reached the property line, they held the wire up, and before he could climb into the truck Professor Tiggs gently laid another plastic baggie on Lilith’s stomach. He shook his head.
“This was found near Lilith’s car. I assume you’re taking both Lilith and Joey to the hospital?”
“Yes, there are three people back there that will need help from the ambulance when it gets here.”
“Do you know who did this?”
“One of them is Brenda Smith, the second is Ann, or Sally Barclay, and some guy. The guy was calling up Lucifer from Hell, and looked up to see me standing there.” Lucius smiled for the first time, causing Gary to shudder at the evil in his expression. “Yeah, he shit and pissed himself, screamed like a little fucking girl, and fainted.”
“That’s what the scream was?”
“Yes, and there are plenty of people who recorded everything on their phones. I never laid a hand on either of them. I’m taking Lilith and Joey to the hospital.”
“Good,” Professor Tiggs said, and stood back as everyone got into the truck that came for them, and spun the tires when they left. He looked up and saw Starr standing there. He walked overand put an arm around her shoulders. “It was Brenda and Sally and some guy.”
“Son of a bitch.”
“Yeah, I feel responsible too.” He sighed and they watched until the taillights of the truck disappeared down the road. “Thankfully, they’re only fifteen minutes away from the hospital.”
“There is that,” Starr said on a sigh, and stood there waiting for the police and ambulance so she could direct them.
*****
“I love this,” Nurse Judy said on a giggle.
“What’s that?” Hawk looked up from the chart he had been signing when she spoke. Two other nurses joined him at the station, and they looked at the woman who spoke in horror.
“It’s so quiet tonight. We’re going to have an easy night.”
She had finished her sentence then thirty seconds later, the doors to the Emergency Room opened and Lucifer walked in, carrying a woman in his arms.
