Blood Line - Chapter 3
The next chapter. I will call the parts chapters now to make it easier.
Three
Wake up. It is Wednesday. I have been asleep for a day. Have shower, get dressed, go out. Need to buy some human food. The beast within, can be sustained from blood, but the effect is only temporary, and the body cells cannot maintain the transformation of a normal dose for more than seventeen minutes. The body starts to crumble. I need some bread, cheese and salad, along with apples, bananas, oranges and whatever fruit there is at the newsagents.
All of the shops here are grubby, most of them doubling up with a brothel out back, or at least an adult film store or a drugs den. I am glad that the only thing human that I require is sustenance; I suffer from none of the vices that afflicts the creature that is Homo Sapiens. None of the greed, lust, wrath, gluttony, or even squalor can find a home with me, although it seems that it is me alone that is holding up the moral flag for this city, this world. I spit on the ground.
Later. At home, watch television. Don't want to, but need something to pass the time until the night hours. Go to sleep for several hours, eat for the rest. Nearly time. Read the file on Darget. Still seems vaguely familiar, but I am unable to tell where from. I leave, lock the door behind me, and make the slow walk to his shop.
Kaider never enjoyed the slow walk to find the hit. It was simply a case of the anticipation of the kill becoming too much for him to handle. He thought it was the best thing in the world, too kill another scumbag. He didn't do it because they were the scumbags, but because he enjoyed the moment of the kill more than anything. Even before the beast was woken within him, he preferred killing to the company of any multiple women, and now he had the power and ability to do it brutally and legally. Well, sort of legally. What was meant by the term legal was that he would never get caught. ISAD could never risk getting rid of him until it was clear that he was no longer needed; even with the electron switch it would be too risky for them. And it was apparent to all that ISAD would need Kaider for a very, very long time indeed.
Stop in the street. Kaider was outside in the new city now, leaving behind the endless monotony of the tower blocks and glass paned buildings. He was now at the old section, outside the centre by a long way. The buildings here, to show their age were made of wood and brick. The streets are even dirtier here, due to the neglect from the rest of the cities monthly cleaning. Turn to the shop by my side. 'Darget's Emporium- one stop for all occultist needs' reads the faded and stained sign on the door. No other markings. This would be an easy hit. No alarm, no security. It wouldn't have been surprising if the door was unlocked. It was locked, but only with a simple bolt system, at least twenty years out of date. Kaider went behind the building to shoot up the Itonerum straight into his veins.
Screams of pain. Writhing, seething on the murky floor. Silence. Once again, the beast is loose. Kaider smiles behind fanged lips. The hulking monster lumbers itself towards the door, and then simply smashes through the wooden panels as if they were made of paper. After the crashing of the door fades, Kaider takes a step into the darkened room. Silence. He moves further, even with animal like enhanced retinas, Kaider cannot see anything. Then he stops. As it turns out, the place had more security than Kaider had initially thought.
Kaider was unable to move any muscle on his body, as if he was trapped by some invisible force. Some kind of magic. This was in fact, the case. The creature growled and tried to break free, but was unable to bit down on the nothingness between his teeth.
Slowly, colossal arms by its side, the same force that was preventing Kaider from moving began to lift him into the air, about two feet off the ground. This began to alarm Kaider, more so than he had ever been before. For the first time ever he didn't have the control. This was beginning to become far more complicated that he thought.
A man stepped out from the murky shadows to greet him. He was very tall and very thin, his face a finely chiseled, yet gaunt feature, black cropped hair nestling on top of his head, hugging the skin on his skull closely. He was pointing with a crooked finger loosely in Kaider's direction. He lifted his other hand effortlessly, oddly sharpened nails, and then forcefully thrust both hands at Kaider with a sinister smile on his face. Kaider was forced backwards, arms out like in crucifixion.
Darget said one thing, and only one thing. It was part growl, part whisper "We won't be needing this, will we?" He said this just as he forced one hand forward to Kaider's head, and an incredible sense of pain hit Kaider's skull. It was an intense agony, but Kaider didn't realize what was until later onwards, as he fainted a few seconds after. The monitoring chip that had taken a complex twelve hour operation to complete was coming out of the back of his skull at an alarming rate. The beast yelled out, the first for a long time. The chip ripped through his skull, and poked slowly through the skin on the back of his head. Sparks flew around the room as the circuitry was slowly pulled apart. The beast growled, and then stopped. Darget let his hands down as the chip fell to the floor, as did Kaider. Empty black was all that Kaider ever remembered for a very long time.
Wake up. It is Wednesday. I have been asleep for a day. Have shower, get dressed, go out. Need to buy some human food. The beast within, can be sustained from blood, but the effect is only temporary, and the body cells cannot maintain the transformation of a normal dose for more than seventeen minutes. The body starts to crumble. I need some bread, cheese and salad, along with apples, bananas, oranges and whatever fruit there is at the newsagents.
All of the shops here are grubby, most of them doubling up with a brothel out back, or at least an adult film store or a drugs den. I am glad that the only thing human that I require is sustenance; I suffer from none of the vices that afflicts the creature that is Homo Sapiens. None of the greed, lust, wrath, gluttony, or even squalor can find a home with me, although it seems that it is me alone that is holding up the moral flag for this city, this world. I spit on the ground.
Later. At home, watch television. Don't want to, but need something to pass the time until the night hours. Go to sleep for several hours, eat for the rest. Nearly time. Read the file on Darget. Still seems vaguely familiar, but I am unable to tell where from. I leave, lock the door behind me, and make the slow walk to his shop.
Kaider never enjoyed the slow walk to find the hit. It was simply a case of the anticipation of the kill becoming too much for him to handle. He thought it was the best thing in the world, too kill another scumbag. He didn't do it because they were the scumbags, but because he enjoyed the moment of the kill more than anything. Even before the beast was woken within him, he preferred killing to the company of any multiple women, and now he had the power and ability to do it brutally and legally. Well, sort of legally. What was meant by the term legal was that he would never get caught. ISAD could never risk getting rid of him until it was clear that he was no longer needed; even with the electron switch it would be too risky for them. And it was apparent to all that ISAD would need Kaider for a very, very long time indeed.
Stop in the street. Kaider was outside in the new city now, leaving behind the endless monotony of the tower blocks and glass paned buildings. He was now at the old section, outside the centre by a long way. The buildings here, to show their age were made of wood and brick. The streets are even dirtier here, due to the neglect from the rest of the cities monthly cleaning. Turn to the shop by my side. 'Darget's Emporium- one stop for all occultist needs' reads the faded and stained sign on the door. No other markings. This would be an easy hit. No alarm, no security. It wouldn't have been surprising if the door was unlocked. It was locked, but only with a simple bolt system, at least twenty years out of date. Kaider went behind the building to shoot up the Itonerum straight into his veins.
Screams of pain. Writhing, seething on the murky floor. Silence. Once again, the beast is loose. Kaider smiles behind fanged lips. The hulking monster lumbers itself towards the door, and then simply smashes through the wooden panels as if they were made of paper. After the crashing of the door fades, Kaider takes a step into the darkened room. Silence. He moves further, even with animal like enhanced retinas, Kaider cannot see anything. Then he stops. As it turns out, the place had more security than Kaider had initially thought.
Kaider was unable to move any muscle on his body, as if he was trapped by some invisible force. Some kind of magic. This was in fact, the case. The creature growled and tried to break free, but was unable to bit down on the nothingness between his teeth.
Slowly, colossal arms by its side, the same force that was preventing Kaider from moving began to lift him into the air, about two feet off the ground. This began to alarm Kaider, more so than he had ever been before. For the first time ever he didn't have the control. This was beginning to become far more complicated that he thought.
A man stepped out from the murky shadows to greet him. He was very tall and very thin, his face a finely chiseled, yet gaunt feature, black cropped hair nestling on top of his head, hugging the skin on his skull closely. He was pointing with a crooked finger loosely in Kaider's direction. He lifted his other hand effortlessly, oddly sharpened nails, and then forcefully thrust both hands at Kaider with a sinister smile on his face. Kaider was forced backwards, arms out like in crucifixion.
Darget said one thing, and only one thing. It was part growl, part whisper "We won't be needing this, will we?" He said this just as he forced one hand forward to Kaider's head, and an incredible sense of pain hit Kaider's skull. It was an intense agony, but Kaider didn't realize what was until later onwards, as he fainted a few seconds after. The monitoring chip that had taken a complex twelve hour operation to complete was coming out of the back of his skull at an alarming rate. The beast yelled out, the first for a long time. The chip ripped through his skull, and poked slowly through the skin on the back of his head. Sparks flew around the room as the circuitry was slowly pulled apart. The beast growled, and then stopped. Darget let his hands down as the chip fell to the floor, as did Kaider. Empty black was all that Kaider ever remembered for a very long time.
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