Page 37 of The Asylum
There was a crunch, and we looked as Magic played baseball with a skull. It flew into the wall and shattered.
“Nobody terrifies my girl!” Magic bellowed, and Bunny made an ‘aww’ noise beside me.
“Aww? Really? That man needs a straitjacket,” I hissed at her.
“He loves me,” Bunny said and smiled.
I shook my head. Hellfire MC and their friends were all clinically nuts. However, this was making for some hysterically funny footage. I held the heavy backpack in my arms as Magic smashed skulls and went after the main one. It was now producing a panicked noise, and I couldn’t blame it.
“Wanna frighten my friends, scare my girl? Think you’re a big skull about town because you’ve got red eyes. Dude, you haven’t met me! I eat skulls like you for breakfast!” Magic rampaged, and I shook my head.
The skull zipped to one side as Magic swung again, and then he was belted with debris from the floor. The skull was putting up a hell of a fight, but Magic had no intention of losing.
He dived for his rocket launcher, which all of us had forgotten to grab, and I watched horrified as he whipped out another rocket from the leg of his jeans. Magic aimed and fired.
The skull shrieked as the rocket blasted it into tiny pieces before blowing through the wall of the morgue. The rocket hit the ground and exploded. We stared at the hole as moonlight filtered in from outside.
Magic stood and wiped his hands calmly. A fire, backlighting him, burned merrily away.
“That took care of that!” he stated.
Over the radio came Pyro’s maniacal laughter and Callie’s shrieks.
“What the hell was that?” Detective Maines demanded, and Magic folded his arms and looked a little worried.
“Aw, shit!” he complained. “Forgot about him!”
Bunny began grinning before laughing. “You’re in trouble, boss!”
“It ain’t the first time, kid, but I saved our asses,” Magic replied, looking proud.
Sunny turned to me with sheer desperation and disbelief in his eyes. I was sure my expression matched his. Phil peered out from the camera and gazed at us.
“This will make this investigation the number one episode of all time,” he stated.
Magic cheered. “That’s me! TV star extraordinaire!”
Sunny yanked his phone from his pocket and jabbed in some numbers. “Chance!” he roared when someone answered. I was with Sunny, who the hell cared that it was the early hours of the morning? Chance had a lot to answer for!
Callie
“Please come immediately,” Maines said over his radio. Michelle and I swapped glances at the panic in his voice and left the tour bus at once. We hopped in an SUV as Phil drove in behind us. Connor and Freddie also scrambled in as I sped off towards the field where the cemetery was being excavated.
“Oh, shit!” Phil exclaimed as we got closer. I leapt out, my jaw dropping in shock. The police stood near us, huddled in a large group, and stared across the field that was being excavated.
“Have you seen anything like this before?” Maines demanded with panic in his voice. I shook my head silently.
“There are so many,” Bunny whispered, appearing. Her eyes were wide, like everyone else’s.
“What do we do?” Maines cried.
Michelle and I swapped glances, and holding hands, we moved forward. Phil lifted his camera to film us, and I turned and pushed it down.
“No. Not this,” I said, and he held my gaze before nodding. I ignored those within the police lines who had their phones out recording.
“Put them away!” Maines ordered. “Show respect.”
I didn’t pay attention as people lowered their cells and I kept moving forward with Michelle. About ten paces away from everyone, we stopped and faced the multitude of ghosts standing there. Men, women, children, and babies of all ages and ethnicities stood facing us in lines and groups. They didn’t move or speak. There were hundreds, all waiting for something.
