Ryan woke up in a cell not knowing how he got there. He looked around the room his cell sat in and outside was a camera. He tried to bend the prison bars but he had lost his strength. Minutes later he heard a click and turn. As the door creaked he waited to see was on the other side.
"What do you want, you have had it for me every since I came here. What did I ever do to you?"
"Honestly, nothing, someone really powerful wants you dead and it's better you than me."
"You are being threatened to do this? We can work together and stop this person. You may kill me but that doesn't guarantee he would let you live."
"I have no choice, didn't you here the part about he being powerful. I don't think teaming up with rotten flesh will make a difference."
Cynthia opened a glass jar she was hold and poured the liquid inside on Ryan. He skin started to fall off but he did scream of shout. All of sudden, Cynthia turn and vomited. She wiped and walked out of the room.
Later, a woman in a purple dress and wearing a blue and white checkered apron came to clean the room.
"Hey, can you please tell my family I'm alive?"
The woman continued to clean not even looking in his direction. Ryan couldn't tell the days from the night, but Cynthia came by from time to time.
She tried burning him alive, drowning him and even tried asphyxiation.After trying to kill him for a long time, she changed her approach.
"So what do we do about Ryan?"
"We can't go against the court, Red and his guards will make our lives a living hell."
Lawhey walked away knocking down vases and chairs.
"It's kind of a win win, if Row emerges nothing can hold him. On the other hand if he doesn't they can keep him. I'll wait, if Row emerges will go and rescue Gina."
"And if he doesn't?"
Kemi asked and Shoto froze, for a split second he thought of what will happen if Row didn't return.
"What do you mean "if he doesn't "? "
"I know it's scary to think of him not returning but just think of the possibility."
Kemi walked away leaving Shoto with his thoughts.
"He has come back to life before, until now I have not thought of the possibility of him not returning. Will I be happier if he doesn't return? He is already dead, does wishing he doesn't return constitute betrayal?"
Shoto said to himself as he thought of the what could happen if Row didn't return.
"I know what we should do, you were right. We should rescue Gina from the vampires. She is a valuable member of the vampiric council, she might sway the king to our side."
"That's seems like a long way to go just to save someone who is right here. "
"I guess we could wait for you to practice your necromancy."
"Fine, let's go to vampire territory."
"We can't go there they would kill us on site, ask the Lycans. Oh, you can't because they are all dead."
"Kemi, I understand your resentment but we must still go. We just need to get in unnoticed."
"I've heard my sister talk of a smuggler, Misty. I think she might be able to help. "
"Okay, find your sister and let her make an introduction. Time is running out."
Lawhey quickly set out to find Atta.
" Okay, what do I do?"
"Watch Ryan, if there is any doubt the leach activation might succeed, kill him. If it fails, he gets Rows powers, that will be dangerous."
Just as they finished talking, Helton worked in.
"So are you going to tell us what the Black Monolith is?"
"Trust me, you don't want to know."
Kemi nodded out of the room.
"We shouldn't stay too long. Now that someone knows I'm a black monolith, they would be coming for me."
"Who?"
Helton ignored him and walked out, he took a bottle of liquid and rubbed some of its contents on himself. He mounted a new ring, unlike his others, this one looked old. It wobbles and sparked from time to time.
He followed Kemi from a distance, watching his every move. Until he stopped at a building. A small rustic building in the slams of Applease, in from was a kiosk. In front of the kiosk a lot of people gathered to bet on beetle races and wrestling.
Kemi entered the building where a woman and a man stood over a counter.
" Welcome, all our meats are fresh today. Which one will you like to buy?"
The woman said the moment he walked in, Helton got of his ring and walked to the building. When he was almost at the entrance, a man got out. Helton turned quickly before realizing it wasn't Kemi. He proceeded to the side of the building .
"What, who the hell rigs a butcher shop windows with armamite."
Helton stopped just when he was about to open the window. He stepped back slowly then reached into his bag and pulled out a kit. From the kit Helton took out a broken glasses he put on. Each side of the pair broken in uneven pieces, with each peace being a different color.
He saw the magic signature of the first pellet then took out blunt scalpel and cut it. Looking in different sections of the glasses he looked for another signature. He saw another one through the red glass. As he was about to cut, he saw the energy tip of the scalpel fluctuate.
"You sly fox, near got me. Putting a red signature on top of a blue to mask it. Clever, I'll love to meet the one who set this up. "
Helton then proceeded to cut the blue signature. Meanwhile, Kemi was in the store trying to catch Ryan scent again. There were a lot of strong smells he couldn't focus.
Helton got to the last pellet, and unlike the other pallet it had no signatures.
"I don't believe you will just leave a pellet without a trigger."
Helton picked up the already deactivated armamite pellets and packed them in a small box. He stepped back and put the box of pellet in his bag. Holding a string he hid behind a pile of empty wooden crates and pulled the window open.
The pellet flew over his head then saw a small explosion happen in a building. He entered the building and slit the woman's throat from behind. He dropped he slowly then went to a room behind the counter. There the man chopped up larger meats, he turned and saw Helton.
He swung his cleaver at Helton and he held his hand up. The mans hand fell off still holding the cleaver. He looked and saw a thin thread Helton was holding.
" I know you are not a butcher, who do you work for?"
Helton cleaned the thread and put it back in his bag.
"Cynthia, but I swear I don't know anything about what goes one beneath. She just paid us to build on our land."
"What, Mclouise ."
Kemi entered and saw Helton.
"What are you doing here?"
"I smelt blood, what are you doing here?"
"Thought you guys sold me out. I found Ryan though, at least I think I did."
"Let's come back with Shoto."
"No, we do attack now. They won't be here if he leave and come back."
Kemi immediately then started to take his clothes off. Half naked he started to transform.