Strangle The Virgin by Bud (Part Two)
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“Whoa, whoa, what the fuck?” Meg, usually calm and collected yelled as she jumped up onto the couch. Her brother Chuck stood up as well, always protective of his little sister. “Shut the fucking barn door!”
The group looked around terrified, all waiting for the other to move. Finally, Mateo and Chuck ran over to slam the doors shut, latching it with a large wooden log and dragging the injured Grim back to the rest of the group by the couches.
“Who the fuck was that?” Bianca screamed while the two men tended to their bloodied friend on the floor.
Emily was squatting on the floor shivering in disbelief, when she looked up she saw Leo raising a large knife above his head, she screamed as he jumped onto Chuck’s back and began stabbing him over and over again. Chuck struggled to stay standing as he tried to shrug off his attacker. Mateo, fearful for his own life scrambled away to the other end of the barn.
“RUN!” Chuck, always succinct, yelled at the group of girls as he hit Leo with a hard right hand that knocked the much smaller man to the ground. Without hesitation the four women turned and began to run towards the roll-up door in the back of the barn where the two dilapidated cars rested. Instinctively Bianca grabbed Liz’s hand trying to drag her away.
“Come on babe, we gotta get outta here!” Bianca urged as she tugged on Liz’s hand. At first, Liz didn’t budge and Bianca assumed she was cemented to the floor in fear, but then Liz spoke.
“It would be a lot easier if you didn't struggle.” Liz turned around, suddenly armed with a small knife and slashed at Bianca as she scrambled away in shock.
As Emily and Meg lifted the bay door open they were met by one of the hooded figures who swung the axe wildly at the girls. Instinctively, Meg reached over and grabbed a tire iron on the ground beside one of the cars and threw it at their anonymous attacker, stunning him briefly before the two ran out of the barn in separate directions into the pitch-black darkness as the hooded figure gave chase. Bianca, meanwhile, was being stalked by Liz who slashed with her knife, her teeth gnashing into a menacing growl, no different from her on stage singing style. Bianca finally found her footing on the barn floor and ran towards the open roll-up door and out into the void of wilderness that surrounded the barn.
The property was enormous, no neighbors close enough to hear their screams as the girls ran in various directions into the dark wooded surroundings. Exhausted and terrified, Bianca found shelter behind a large fallen tree in the desolate woods.
“Where’s Meg? Where’s Em? What the hell was that? What the hell is going on?” Bianca asked of the unforgiving twilight forest.
“Bianca!” Liz called from the distance, Bianca ducked lower behind the tree and covered her mouth to obfuscate her hysterical breathing, “where are you!?”
The country-side darkness was disorienting. North, South, East, West; all were absorbed by the crushing blackness that made it impossible for Bianca to discern where she had come from, where she might run to and most importantly, what direction Liz was coming from. Her mind was paralyzed with anxiety. Questions poured through her, is Chuck okay? Who were those attackers? Suddenly, there was a crinkle, then dead silence. Bianca looked vigilantly into the nothing but the only noise was her heart beating through her chest.
“Hey,” Liz’s voice whispered in Bianca’s right ear and startled her, she jumped up but then suddenly was struck with a smashing blow to the head that Liz delivered with a large rock. Bianca, dazed, fell to the forest floor.
“Always gotta bring that big ogre everywhere don’t ya?” Liz said angrily at Bianca’s nearly unconscious body, “it would have been sooo easy. Just three little girls to kill, but noo! Her ogre of a brother, that idiot Grim and your fucking brother just had to come.”
Liz dragged Bianca’s limp, concussed body across the forest floor and towards the faint light of the barn in the distance. The silence of the forest was broken by Emily’s scream in the distance, Bianca groaned, “Emily…” and Liz responded with a kick to the stomach. “SHUT UP” she barked. After some time she made her way back to the clearing and met up with two of the figures.
“Well, did you get em?” Liz asked of the larger one.
“We got the virgin, the fat one got away.” He responded, pulling the bandanna from his face to reveal his crooked teeth grinning.
The smaller one removed their mask as well showing the face of a young woman with a sinister smile. “There’s something you have to know about Leo…”
Liz dropped Bianca’s ankles and stormed into the barn where Leo’s body lay bloodied and barely alive. His face was swollen, some of his teeth had been knocked out from the fight with Chuck. He gasped for air and spit up blood, his lungs had been punctured from a large knife wound that was gushing blood from his chest. Liz knelt down and lovingly wrapped her arms around him, caressing his head as his life slowly slipped away from.
“Elizabeth…” he struggled to speak.
“Shhh, brother,” she kissed the crown of his head gently consoling him, “you've done well, your sacrifice will not be in vain, She is upon us now.”
Liz leaned over and gave him a passionate kiss that covered her mouth in his blood, then gave him one last gentle kiss on the nose before standing back up on her feet.
“Good night brother.” She lifted her foot and stomped down quickly on his throat, Leo spit blood high into the air. She stomped again, and again until he no longer groaned. She then turned her attention to Chuck’s body which lay dead on the floor face down with a large axe stuck in the back of his head. Filled with rage she began kicking his lifeless corpse, screaming, “you stupid fuck! You killed my brother! When I find your fucking sister I’m skinning that pig alive!”
The hooded man and woman came in through the back entrance of the barn, one dragging Bianca who was beginning to wake and struggle, the other had an unconscious Emily slung over his shoulder. The third hooded figure was binding Mateo’s hands with rope, he had been severely beaten, one eye was swollen shut and he drooled blood from his mouth.
“Get them out by the pyre.” Liz grumbled as she stormed out of the barn.
“Get moving.” The larger man under the hood said as he motioned Grim and Mateo out the door. Grim hobbled and Mateo helped him outside to the fire. The other two thugs followed suit, pulling Bianca and Emily who struggled in vain.
There, by the fire, they had prepared a large wooden table with owl carvings adorning the sides. Liz stood at the table and began to remove her clothes and in a loud voice she said, “NO FIRE IF IT BE KINDLED FROM THE WORLD OF MAN” She raised her arms above her head and looked towards the heavens as her band-mates and friends looked on in disbelief. “WHERE MAN IS NOURISHED FROM THE BOSOM OF EARTH, SHALL WE DRIVE HIM FROM THIS GROVE.”
“One Flame Alone” The three hooded figures said in unison.
“LIGHT THIS FIRE, THE PURE ETERNAL FLAME THAT BURNS WITHIN THE LAMP OF FELLOWSHIP.” She continued as she reached under the table revealing a large ornate dagger that she raised high in the air.
“Upon the altar of Bohemia.” Again, in unison, the three spoke.
“WELL SHOULD WE KNOW OUR LIVING FLAME OF FELLOWSHIP CAN SEAR ALL IMPERFECTION,” again she reached under altar, this time pulling out a large chalice adorned with gems. “LET THE ALL POTENT SPIRIT OF THIS LAMP, BY ITS CLEANSING AND AMBIENT FIRE ENCIRCLE THE MYSTIC SCENE.”
“Hail Fellowship! Hail Moloch!” The trio shouted in unison.
Liz turned and pointed at Emily, “bring forth the virgin for the sacrifice so that we may make our blood sacrament to Moloch.”
One of the hooded men grabbed Emily by the hair and began dragging her towards the makeshift altar. Bianca screamed for him to stop but was met with a swift backhand from the man closest to her. “Why are you doing this Liz?” She screamed.
Liz, now naked with her face covered in drying blood walked to Bianca and slapped her across the face. Bianca’s head dropped and Liz grabbed her by the hair, yanking the woman’s face close to hers. “Quiet your mouth wretch! Or it will be your blood spilled upon the altar of sacrifice.” Liz let Bianca go and made her way back to the altar.
The hooded man picked Emily up and laid her upon the altar, ripping her clothes off and lashing her to the table with leather straps that went across her wrists and ankles. Emily screamed in terror as Liz raised the large dagger high above her head. Grim, Mateo and Bianca could only look upon in shock at the sight before them, screaming and crying as their friend was about to be sacrificed.
“GREAT OWL OF BOHEMIA, WE THANK THEE FOR THY ADJURATION.”
“All shall know thy living flame.” The macabre ceremony continued.
“WE SACRIFICE UNTO YOU THIS VIRGIN, PURE AND FAIR SO THAT YOU MIGHT GRANT US EVERLASTING LIFE.”
“No! She’s not a virgin!” Mateo yelled and all evil eyes in attendance turned to him as he pleaded, “she’s not a virgin, she’s not a virgin ...I…..I…..”
The hooded woman reached back to strike Mateo down but Liz stopped her, “let the man child speak.”
He looked over to Bianca and mouthed the words, “I'm sorry,” and then looked back towards Liz who was staring through him with a piercing glare. “I raped her!” Everyone was taken aback from the confession, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry. She was drunk and I...I...I was drunk and I had some X and I put it in her drink and she passed out and Bianca I’m sorry, Emily I’m sorry, she’s not a virgin…you don't have to kill her.”
His head dropped in his hands as he sobbed having confessed to such a cruel act. “How could you, you sonofabitch!” Grim yelled as he hobbled over to the downed Mateo and started punching him wildly.
“Stop him.” Liz barked at the hooded figures who complied and separated the two men. She then walked over to Mateo, still armed with the large dagger. She stopped inches from him as he groveled and begged for forgiveness, “castrate the defiler and throw him in the fire.”
The two hooded men grabbed Mateo by his legs and pulled him toward the roaring bonfire, dragging him through the dirt, while he kicked and screamed, begging for mercy, begging for forgiveness, begging to live. The larger of the men unbuckled Mateo’s belt and pulled his pants off, casting them into the fire. The other man grabbed Mateo’s penis and testicles in one hand and with the other hand sawed through the flesh with a large knife leaving a large bloody patch of exposed flesh. Mateo screamed in agony before quickly fainting from the shock and pain. The flames beside him roared with blood lust.
After casting his genitals into the fire, the two men reached down on either side of Mateo, each grabbing an arm and a leg, lifted him high into the air and then tossed him into the fire. His body seemed to writhe and dance within the flames, embers flying high into the endless night sky. Bianca moaned in agony having watched her brother burned alive and Grim vomited at the sight of the horrendous gore.
“Elizabeth, if there is not a virgin, what are we going to do? This is all ruined!” The larger man asked Liz, but she despised being questioned so she walked over and slashed the man’s throat with the large dagger which opened a gaping wound that sprayed blood all over her naked body.
“If we don’t have pure blood, then we will just need to appease Moloch with more blood,” she said to the man as he collapsed on the ground, gurgling blood as he died “KILL THEM ALL!” she roared.
Concerned for their own lives, the remaining disciples of Liz walked towards Bianca and Grim. Suddenly, from the darkness a roar of an engine could be heard. It was Meg in the driver's seat of her parent’s van barreling right towards the hooded figures. The woman jumped out of the way but the man was struck by the vehicle and subsequently crushed under the tires, the van stopping over him. Meg jumped out of the front seat and rushed Liz, fighting for the dagger. On the other side of the van Bianca and Grim ran towards the hooded woman, struggling out of their binds.
Bianca reached her first and the two began to roll around the ground punching, kicking, biting and pulling each others hair as they both knew this fight was to the death. The woman swiftly kicked Bianca in the face from the bottom knocking her back, but the hobbled Grim appeared and tackled her before the woman could mount Bianca. The woman struggled to release Grim’s grip on her neck by punching at the wound in his shoulder and leg but Grim was a man possessed. In a loud, monstrous, guttural roar he squeezed her throat until she stopped struggling and suffocated to death. In a fit of rage, he continued to squeeze at her breathless neck and slamming her head into the ground until Bianca shook him and called his name, snapping him out of his rage. The two embraced and cried, knowing that this hellish night was almost over.
“Where the hell did Meg come from?” Bianca asked frantically, “and where the hell did Liz go?”
The two walked around the still running van and found Meg face down and Emily still lashed to the altar, sobbing and crying she warned the two, “LIZ! LIZ!”
At that moment Liz snuck up behind Grim and grabbed him by the back of the head and slit his throat with her dagger, spraying Bianca with blood before Grim collapsed.
“You want to know something Bianca?” the naked, bloody, mud covered Liz said waving the bloody dagger around while Emily screamed in the background. “Tonight, was supposed to be sooo easy. We kill our little friend here and sacrifice her for eternal power. Power to do anything. We could have been the biggest band in the world! We could have had fame and money. You know what we could have done with that? Moved out of that shit hole apartment on the east-side. We could have found your father, you would have liked that wouldn't you? We would have been GODS! But no, your perverted little brother is a fucking, nasty, rapist. I would have expected Grim to be the one to rape Emily, but I would have never guessed your little fucking brother. Now, I’m just gonna have to kill you, and then for fun, I think I’ll go kill your mother too!”
Liz ran at Bianca and the two fought for the dagger. Bianca held her wrists to keep the sharp blade away from her but Liz fought viciously, kicking and headbutting Bianca trying to loosen her grip. They slammed up against the van and Liz began pushing the knife closer and closer to Bianca's chest, she released her grip and jammed her thumb into Liz’s eye causing her to drop the knife and blood to gush from her eye socket. Bianca rushed her quickly shoving her into the fire where she screamed in agony and writhed in pain just like Bianca’s brother had earlier. Bianca stood in awe until the screams stopped, she then bent down and grabbed the dagger to free her friend.
“It’s okay Em, It’s okay.” Bianca said as she cut the leather straps off, freeing Emily who jumped up and hugged Bianca. The two friends sobbed with joy and relief.
“Is Meg…” Emily began to ask but Bianca shook her head no and motioned towards the ground where Meg lay in a heap face down. “Oh my god B, can we, fucking...let’s get outta here.”
The two began to walk towards the car when they began to hear a rumbling in the direction of the fire behind them. The two spun around to find movement in the burning embers of the bonfire. A shadow began to rise through the flames. Bianca pushed Emily behind her as the shadow formed into Liz, somehow still alive, stepping out of the fire and walking towards them. Her body was burned, strips of skin peeling away from her, her scalp red and shiny with gore, tufts of hair hanging on in spots.
“So, shall ye burn me once again,” the dainty singer spoke quietly before taking a breath and releasing a guttural roar, “NOT WITH THESE FLAMES WHICH HITHER YE HAVE BROUGHT, YE PRIESTS AND FOOLS I SPIT UPON YOUR FLAME.”
Liz’s body began to twitch and bend, contorting, the fire burning higher behind her. Her back arched, the bones of her arms snapped and popped as her limbs somehow began to elongate. Bones burst through her fingertips, sharp like deadly knives. Another roar tore through this creature as her jaw bent and twisted into a predator-like form, her teeth growing into fangs. It dropped onto all fours, pawing in the dirt, snorting out of its nostrils.
The beast leaped as the air around Bianca and Emily became deathly still, any noise from the forest silenced by this devil. Emily slipped her hand into Bianca’s and the two began to run backwards, terrified to take their eyes off the creature flying towards them.
Suddenly, Meg appeared, a red fire axe in her hand as she jumped on top of the creature. She swung and slashed the monster’s face. It roared and flung Meg off before swinging around and digging its talons into the dirt. Meg leapt to her feet and stood hunched over, panting, the bloody axe held out in front of her.
Bianca’s gaze swept the carnage around her until she spied the second axe. Delicately she tiptoed in the dirt and grabbed the weapon, the weight heavy in her palms. Meg slashed in front of her, lunging at the creature as Bianca rushed up behind. The two swung in unison, Meg ripping through the creature’s face and front, Bianca’s axe tearing through the back. The monster seized, black blood spurting from the wounds and fell to the ground, dead.
Meg slid to the ground beside it as Emily rushed over, grabbing her before she hit the dirt. Bianca stepped over the demon and knelt beside them. Meg met her gaze, her eyes cloudy. She smirked and said, “I always hated that bitch.” Bianca choked out a laugh through her tears. Meg reached up to wipe away the blood and gore from her tear stained cheek. “You were always so beautiful.” She whispered, closing her eyes. Emily felt her body go limp and gently laid her down. Bianca reached out her hand and pulled Emily up, wrapping an arm around her waist.
The two stood in front of the altar, surrounded by the dead and the carnage, the fire still burning but now not as tall. They cried and the sun began to rise.
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