“Vera, we can do this!” Mika shouted, not taking his eyes of Dedrus.
Red flashed in her eyes. “Now!”
Mika and Deter pulled back. Dedrus halted his attack as they exchanged knowing looks, agreeing to have a peaceful retreat.
“We’ll be back,” Vera said. A river of blood rushed down her dress, sparkling in the glow of the lamplights. Her wings fanned around Deter, Mika, and Craetis.
They disappeared.
“Godfuckingdammit,” Dedrus said.
He ran into the study to join the others. Kid, rising from the two halves of the table, followed after him.
“They know we have the Antichrist!” Dedrus exclaimed.
Treycore wiped sweat from his brow. Kinzer fell back against a bookshelf, his penis sliding across his thigh.
Kid hurried to Maggie and helped her to her feet.
“We need to leave…now.” Kinzer approached Dedrus at the door. “Vera could pop in at any second and nab her.”
“Naw,” Treycore said. “Bitch needs to find herself another hand. And she was already getting too weak. Her moves were slowing down. Probably only has a few teleports left in her.”
“And I saved them just for you, sweetlips.”
Vera stood between Kid and Maggie, sweat dripping off her arms and chin. She panted, desperately struggling for air. Stretching her arms out, blood spewed from her stump, across Kinzer and Dedrus’s faces as she lunged at Maggie.
“Stop her!” Dedrus cried.
Kid pounced on her back and wrapped his arm around her neck. Treycore slipped between Vera and Maggie. Vera’s arms wrapped around him, blood spraying across the room. Vera snarled as she, Treycore, and Kid disappeared.
“Fucking cunt!” Dedrus shouted.
“Get her!” Kinzer said, motioning to Maggie. “We’re getting the fuck out of here.”
***
What the fuck?Kid thought.
Blue moonlight illuminated a forest with trees nearly twenty times the size any Kid had ever seen. Foliage surrounded him on all sides. The hum of tree frogs came from every direction.
Kid sprang to his feet. The back of his jeans were soaked from the damp ground.
He glanced around worriedly. Was he alone?
“Fuck.” Treycore popped up from behind a cluster of ferns.
“Where the fuck are we?”
Treycore studied their surroundings. “A jungle,” he said. “Judging by the plant life, I’d say somewhere in South America.”
“Who the fuck was that bitch?”
“My ex-girlfriend.”
Ex-girlfriend?Kid thought.He totally just jerked off with me.
“That doesn’t explain why the fuck we’re in the middle of a fucking jungle.”
