Outside Hell (40 page)

The door smashed into various massive lumps
of rock and Raffious the beast slumped down to the floor. The
dragon that the old boy had turned into was proving useless against
the dark under lord so he instantly shaped shifted back into the
old mans form again.

Now standing there with his feet badly burnt
\Raffious passed his hand across them to heal them but they
remained the same, and nothing happened.

The pain was unbelievable and Raffious had to
clench his teeth as it roared up to his brain.

Turning he spotted the cannons above the
doors and then clicked his fingers to make them fire. The massive
turrets boomed down at Satan, faster than they had before.

Still though nothing happened, the bullets
simply melted as they’d entered with inches of the old serpents red
skin.

Satan roared with laughter and the sound that
came from his mouth was so huge that the eagles who were nesting
high above, then burrowed their heads down into their nest and laid
their wings across the top of their young to try and protect them
from it.

The pine trees in the far distance that
weren’t burnt to ash also shook violently, with mountains of snow
falling down from their canopies too.

Raffious was thrown by this incredible beast
standing in front of him with unbelievable powers that seemed
unstoppable with everything he’d thrown at him. Then as a second
past suddenly the old boy remembered the pit.

Clasping his hands together, Raffious
suddenly ripped them apart whilst muttering some more archaic words
into the now steaming hot air.

In response the ground beneath Satan suddenly
opened into a massive fissure that ran off hundreds of feet in both
directions from him. The prince of darkness instantly fell down
inside and the clouds of demons that had been watching from the
tree line, suddenly screamed and charged in after him.

Then the old boy reversed the spell by
twisting his grip.

In response the huge hole that was hundreds
of feet deep and looked like a canyon because of its size, suddenly
slammed shut again with so much force that a thousand mph wind then
roared up from inside it, and carried with it massive rocks and
debris that soared hundreds of feet into the air.

The old boy as he’d witnessed Satan
succumbing to his mighty wrath then paused to take it in that he’d
just won, only as he was starting to chuckle out loud, and as he
was looking around hoping that someone had seen his skills,
suddenly the ground opened beneath him and an inferno of great
magnitude blasted out that vaporized the sorcerer instantly.

Satan’s demonic laugh was the last thing
heard as the flames then sucked back into the whole and the ground
closed up over it again.

*****

The family of eagles would have left as soon
as they’d seen the mortar bombs going off, but they’d had young to
look after and wouldn’t leave them. Then when Satan had appeared
they’d considered grabbing them in their talons and flying away,
but knew that would leave them highly vulnerable to death so
stayed. Now though as they’d sensed the evil atrocities beneath
them were finally over, and the superhuman soldiers were turned to
black ash, they’d cautiously peeked down and then turned to look
back at their young.

Only as they’d looked beneath their feathers,
in between their feet they’d found to their extreme horror that
both the chicks were laying on their sides with their beaks wide
open and dead.

In response the eagles then screamed in such
a high pitch tone that it blasted out across the pine forest that
was thick with fire and smoke, and could be heard for miles around
if anyone was left alive that is. Only there were beings still
live, four to be precise and three of them had definitely heard it
too.

Dracus, Claudius and Laouse were high above
on the top of the cliff looking down as Satan and Raffious had done
battle, with the priest outside the chopper half a mile away using
snow to clean the puke of the back seat.

In response as Laouse felt for the birds
beneath him, Dracus then closed his eyes and summoned the swirling
mist in his mind again.

The clouds of white swirling mist that looked
like tornados gathered together and from within and behind them a
bright light formed. Then as he’d thought about the two chicks that
were laying dead beneath him and brought their vision into the mist
too, suddenly the light in his mind grew so bright that it
threatened to consume him.

Laouse saw the bowman with his feet inches
over the edge of the cliff, and then as he’d closed his eyes in
much the same manner as before, Laouse understood that he was
summoning the mist.

Then as the bowman had started to shake and
the loose rocks of the cliff face had began to shift beneath his
feet, and were falling the hundreds of feet down on to the
destroyed tarmac beneath them, they’d grabbed him.

Seconds past and then as the birds beneath
looked down again at their dead young that they’d fed all winter
and were just sadly going to fly away, the chicks opened their eyes
and called up to them.

The parents hearing their little chirpy
noises were so ecstatic realising they were alive again that they’d
nearly fallen out of the nest themselves. Then in response they’d
dived their beaks down into the nest and softly nudged their young
until both of them were standing back up on their feet again.

Claudius looked in astonishment as the bowman
by his side then opened his eyes again and his legs instantly sunk
beneath him.

Holding him there hundreds of feet above the
tarmac to watch the family of eagles reunited again, a second past
and then they brought him in from the edge and sat him down on the
ground.

Claudius and Laouse said nothing. Both of
them looked at each other with their eyes wide in astonishment at
what they’d just seen. For Laouse he knew that there were
absolutely no scientific answers either, for what had just
happened.

Claudius walked down the side of the mountain
with the mile square tarmac down some hundreds of feet below him to
his right. And as he’d walked, his hood was back revealing his
massive neck and wiry beard that was playing with the bear furs,
sticking up from his chest.

All the while Dracus was slumped almost
lifelessly over his shoulder and his new friend Laouse was by his
side.

On the way down they’d past the corpses of
the German snipers that Claudius had had stern words with, and then
when they’d finally reached the tarmac and walked along the it for
a mile with the towering cliff up above them, they’d came to the
entrance of the hanger.

Claudius bent forwards as he’d approached the
doorway and gently put the bowman down against the wall. Dracus was
utterly exhausted from the days events, and from the energy that
he’d consumed saving the two eagle chicks above.

Standing there looking into the hanger,
Claudius glanced in and the sudden thought that his son might be
inside, and in turn might also still be alive, had sucked him
in.

Then leaping over the massive boulders in
front of him that’d formed the doorway for many decade, the
Bavarian giant with his fists clenched tight and dressed in his
full length bear furs, charged inside.

Laouse who was desperate to find his friends,
immediately followed in the huge shadow that was cast from the
Bavarian warrior. Then as they’d found themselves in the first
room, they were immediately presented with a labyrinth of pathways
that lead off in various different directions.

Looking upwards they could see above them and
running from the right to the left, there was a gangway that was
formed of steel and spanned the engine bay underneath.

Then on the right of them there was a huge
set of steel steps that led up to it, and across to the left side
of the gangway, there was a feint light that was flickering out of
a doorway that was softly lighting up the opposite wall.

Realising by its glare that it was obviously
coming from computer screens, they’d took that as the headquarters
for the joint and decided to check that last.

Then after realising that the best place to
start looking for cells would probably be deep underneath the
hanger, they’d taken the first passageway that was in front of
them, and ran at speed down it.

Then after fifteen minutes of searching that
passageway and numerous other side passageways that were leading
off it, finally and after passing through the science labs which
stank of death, they’d reached a heavy metal door.

Claudius looked up as he’d approached it and
saw a sign above the door, but the language was foreign to him so
he couldn’t understand it.

The sign in German said “ZELLEN”.

Laouse being Austrian and understanding
German, then immediately screamed out, “That’s it.”

The door was solid steel with a slide hatch
that was about three quarters of the way up for them to look
through. Then as Laouse ignored had it and tried the handle first,
he’d found to his dismay that the door was locked.

The Austrian suddenly noticed that the locks
that were running down the left side of it were actually internal,
and then in response he’d sighed as he’d looked up at the Grizzly
bear beside him, and said to him that there was no way that they’d
be able to break it down.

Claudius who was desperate to see his son
again and who’d grown up in the extremely harsh out backs of
Bavaria, then and whilst snarling, simply pushed Laouse aside in a
friendly manner to demonstrate just how wrong his little scientist
friend could be.

As he did and from his rage, his body had a
massive surge of power that raced through it, and then in response
the Bavarian monster threw an overarm punch that landed massively
slap bang directly in the centre of the door.

The result was breathtaking and immediately
left Laouse thinking that maybe he should think about taking a few
sessions down the gym, and possibly hiring the Grizzly bear as his
personal trainer too.

Even though the heavy steel door was
reinforced with massive steel belts that were fastened to the
outside by huge dome shaped bolts, the door when the punch had
landed gave in as if it were plastic.

The whole room that they were in, and from
the impact, was suddenly filled with the wild and massively intense
sound of buckling steel.

The door as the Grizzly had hit it, had then
buckled inwards with so much force that his furry hand had
travelled past the doors surface a foot, with the steel stretching
and screeching violently to accommodate it.

Then with eyes burning with rage he’d grabbed
the destroyed and deeply buckled door in both hands and ripped it
back towards him, snapping the six heavy duty hinges like they were
nothing to him.

Turning around with the massive lump of
twisted steel in hands, he’d thrown it away from him and then
without saying anything, the mighty Bavarian had rushed inside.

Laouse who’d swallowed deeply when he’d seen
the mighty Bavarians extreme brute force in true action, suddenly
realized with a grin, that now whatever door they’d found ahead of
them, they’d always have the key.

Then as Claudius’ feet had entered through
the now gaping hole, they’d immediately landed upon more metal
grating that formed the top of another gangway, leading straight
ahead for about fifty feet into complete darkness.

Then as the Bavarians’ eyes had washed the
darkness with their vampire vision, instantly the foreboding place
had lit up as if it was bathed in bright sunlight.

Looking down through the tiny holes in the
steel flooring that was beneath him, he could see the tops of cells
either side of him, and inside the one to his left, and through the
wire netting that formed the roof, there was a vampire woman
chained to the wall, who was wearing a yellow blood stained
bikini.

The woman instantly looked up at him and then
in response she’d bared her fangs at him. A second past and then
when she’d realized that he was one of her own species, she’d
screamed for him to get her out of her chains.

Again Claudius was filled with immense rage
seeing her like that

and with his fangs so far down that they were
trying to dig into his beard, the beast leapt over the side of the
gangway and crashed down through the wire netting, landing heavily
on the floor beneath him.

Laouse a second after copied the Bavarian but
leapt over the right hand side railing, crashing down through the
second cells wire netting roof where there was another vampire
woman also in a yellow blood stained bikini.

Both of them were furious with rage seeing
their kind in such a place, and then as they’d stood in front of
the women in different cells, both of them had tried by bare hand
to snap the women’s chains, but because of the pain they
couldn’t.

The chains were laced with silver and as soon
as they’d touched it, their flesh had sunk into the silver like a
hot knife does into butter.

Claudius turned around and whilst holding his
hands out in front of him to cool down, he’d then kicked open the
steel barred doorway that led out into the passageway. A second
later, and as his super fast vampire healing took over, and his
hands started to feel normal again, he’d grabbed the second doorway
leading through into Laouse’s cell and with one hand, simply ripped
it off its hinges.