The Bitch is Back
The glistening portal of light closes behind her.
Lilith stands there like an alabaster statue with wolf-like dentition, staring at Heinlen, her skeletal face immobile.
Per L’Enfant is having none of it.
“MON CAPITAINE, PERHAPS I SHOULD DISPATCH THIS DEMON BACK TO HELL WITH MY KATANA RIGHT NOW, N’EST-CE PAS?? LET ALL THESE OLD NEPHILIM’S, AZAZELS AND MORNING STARS KISS OUR COLLECTIVE ASSES…..”
Andrea Vucic still grips Heinlen’s hand. She leans over to his right ear and adds her take.
“You really have got to catch me up on your past love life when we next kill a bottle of Dewars……..”
Heinlen is mortified to have this repulsive apparition – this crypto-freak -show up on his doorstep. They watch as Lilith slowly walks down towards him, never diverting her gaze. Finally, she stops a mere three feet from his body – intentionally positioning herself “in his space” – and speaks. Her voice is gravelly and oddly stilted. There is a sulphureous smell that emanates from her person. She’s revolting. Nauseating.
“I am as uninspired to see your face as you obviously are to see mine. Show me to my accommodations and I will engage you in discussion tomorrow.”
Heinlen barks out an order.
“Xen Chen, Dirk and Per – show the lady to our barn. Get her some fresh hay and clean water. Pen our animals outside. Lock her inside. I want constant surveillance of her. Post security sentries every five feet around the building. If she tries to escape, shoot to kill and then decapitate her and bring me the head. Understand?”
Per L’Enfant responds for his mates.
“Absolument, Mon Capitane! Allez! On y va Madame! Let’s go!”
Lilith’s visage doesn’t change after hearing any of this. She stoically follows Heinlen’s loyal “Paladins” as they head to the North pasture and barn. VARYAG Security guards, armed to their teeth, fall in all around them and join the procession. They can see something big is happening and have their weapons at the ready. Per L’Enfant will do doubt relay Heinlen’s orders to keep the barn as tight as a drum.
As they walk off into the distance, Heinlen grabs the few small pieces of their luggage and gently squeezes Andy’s hand. He’s exhausted.
“Let’s go home. Tomorrow’s another day”.
Soon L’Enfant, Xen-Chen and Dirk join Heinlen and Andrea in the welcoming kitchen of Hyne Haus just as Chef Lakas is ladling out a Beef and Barley stew that is a house favorite. They gorge on the cuisine, cleaning out the entire bread locker and an over-sized tureen of stew. After weeks of hospital food, they are in seventh heaven.
But their conversation rapidly gets serious over coffee, ice cream and strudel pastries.
HEINLEN:
“Look – I owe you guys and explanation.
That witch used to be a medical doctor. Her father was NordTur – tasked by BratvaRus to run NordPharma. She was his right-hand executive. She conspired to have him murdered so she could get his seat on the BratvaRus Council in St. Petersburg. She later bio-engineered a doomsday virus after catching and killing a subterranean freak called by the Lenni Lenape Indians in New Jersey, a “Yakwahe”. She used its blood to make the bioweapon – and Simon Magus handed her over to The Old Ones for Trial and punishment. The Old Ones claimed jurisdiction over the “Yakwahe” – asserting that it was one of their own from ancient times.
I thought they killed her.
Now I see that they’ve “rehabilitated” her into a Vampyre – and are using her as a foil to end to mankind killing Vampyres on Earth.
There’s a lot I don’t know. I’m going to try and find out more information tonight.
But keep an eye on her every hour – take turns on the live surveillance feed. Everybody remains in contact, wired-up on comms and keep your weapons handy. Don’t let your focus down for one second. Check in with me or Andrea every hour.
Lilith is dangerous, cunning and ruthless. She is warped by The Old Ones – who can’t be trusted. The sooner she’s off of Hyne Haus property the better.
Tomorrow we’ll all hear what she has to say.”
ANDREA VUCIC:
“You have a history with her. That’s why The Old Ones picked her to act as their go-between in this shitshow. Let’s be up front about that. They’re using her to gain unfair advantage.
What your relationship with her was is your business – BUT NOW – she’s a biologically compromised freak who has questionable mental capacity, zero gravitas and no veracity whatsoever. How do we trust anything she says? How do we deal with such a train-wreck? How is this not an enormous fools-errand that’s doomed to failure – designed to create the perfect pretext for evil forces to unleash Armageddon on humanity?
PER L’ENFANT:
“I am not a lawyer – but if there’s a document that was signed eons ago that is the basis of this AZEZEL’S demand, we must read it. I understand the Pacta Sunt Servanda business – Contracts must be Observed. But we must know what the contract or “Pacta” we’re being asked to “Servanda” is! We need to see the Pacta Vampyrum.
Mon Capitaine – it may be time to consult your little magic book. We need your delightfully witty Angelic mentor….”
HEINLEN:
“Oh…..and just how do you know he’s witty and Angelic? Have you been snooping around in the Library?”
PER L’ENFANT:
“Pardonne-moi, Mon Capitaine! An honest mistake, I assure you! Upon my Oath!
I am a sucker for old books! I simply had to peek! I can’t help myself! I am addicted to Grimoires!
But my point is the same – we need Gabriel’s help here…”
Heinlen’s head is splitting – again. L’Enfant is right, of course.
The Hetman is ready to lay down some rules for tomorrow when their Security Comms go wild. Their entire wall monitor of Lilith’s place of confinement bursts into bright orange. Static and garbled, choppy yelling blasts over the comms – something is wrong.
“COMMANDER…….HET (STATIC) MAN……….LOOK DOWN AT THE BARN……(STATIC).. ORRR (STATIC) RANGE…LIGHT…..FOUR MEN DOWN……WE (STATIC) NEED…….BACK (STATIC) UP!!!
Heinlen and his crew run to the front door of Hyne Haus – to the hewn-beam overhang that faces the North pasture and barn. The building in the distance looks like a small nuke is detonating inside of it – blinding orange light is streaming out of every window, crack, door frame and feed loading door. Just as Heinlen is about to speak, the flood of light starts to pulse and vibrate – and a low, uneven hum fills the cold night air. Even at their distance – at least five football fields – they can hear it.
They all start running to the barn, joined along the way from their left and right by other VARYAG Security men, guns at the ready. As they get closer to the structure, they can feel heat – the brisk Swiss chill is being dissipated by the energy anomaly inside the building directly ahead of them. The night air is actually starting to show fog, lending an eeriness to the already macabre scene. The place looks like a creepy graveyard in a bad black and white “B” monster movie from the 1950s.
They reach the fenced perimeter of the barn enclosure to see VARYAG Security Guards leaning against it, their AK47s locked and loaded. Not far from where they’re standing – about twenty feet from the still-closed barn door – four bodies are strewn about the dirt driveway. Four VARYAG Security Guards, obviously dead. Even at the distance Heinlen and his crew are standing, splinters of orange glow emanating from inside the structure illuminate greasy, slick smears at the throats of the bodies – typical Vampyre attack and feeding wounds.
Lilith has eaten her dinner.
They can feel the hum vibrating inside their chests – it’s getting slower and less insistent. The orange glow is also waning. Heinlen holds up his fist in a “Stop” signal.
“WAIT HERE – IT’S DYING DOWN. DIRK – BRING UP THE RADIATION APP ON YOUR PHONE AND SEE IF IT’S SAFE TO GO INSIDE THERE…..I DOUBT WE’LL FIND HER, BUT I STILL WANT TO HAVE A LOOK. KEEP YOUR BLADES READY.”
After a few minutes everything goes silent. Heinlen takes point, backed up by Andrea Vucic and the Paladins, Per L’Enfant, Xen Chen and Dirk Fremd. The barn door is unlocked. There’s a sickening, rotten-eggs, Sulphur smell permeating the joint. It’s moist and hot – and the hay looks soiled. The bucket of fresh water that was supplied to Lilith is kicked over.
She’s gone. As expected. Heinlen barks orders into his Comms link –
“REVIEW ALL SURVEILLANCE TAPES FOR THE PROPERTY – UNLESS SHE CAN FLY, SHE WALKED OUT OF HERE. I WANT TO KNOW WHERE SHE WENT. WE STAY ON RED ALERT – OUR BASE WAS JUST ATTACKED. IF YOU SEE THE SUBJECT SHOOT TO KILL – I REPEAT, SHOOT TO KILL. EVERY SURVEILLANCE SECTOR REPORT IN EVERY HALF-HOUR. GET A BURIAL DETAIL TO PRESERVE THE BODIES OF OUR FALLEN COMRADES HERE FOR BURIAL…OVER AND OUT.”
Heinlen stands there seething with anger. His head is about to explode.
“Alright – let’s head home. We got a long night ahead of us.”
THE BOOK OF THE REVELATION OF JOHN (12:7) (KJV)
“A war took place in Heaven. Michael and his Angels made war on the Dragon and the Dragon and his Angels made War. But they did not prevail and no longer there any place found for him in Heaven. The Great Dragon was hurled down, the old serpent, he who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the Earth and his Angels were thrown down with him……”
THE APOCRYPHAL BOOK OF ENOCH
FIRST ENOCH – THE ETHIOPIAN BIBLE (1-10)
THE WATCHERS
“And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. And the Angels, the Children of Heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: “Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children…..” And these Angels, the Children of Heaven, were Semjaza, Samlazaz, Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel, Danel, Azazel….”
And these Angels, the Children of Heaven, took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them forbidden things. And the wives became pregnant and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells. The giant children consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind – devoured man’s flesh and drank their blood. Then the Earth laid accusation against these lawless ones.
The Watcher Azazel taught men to make swords and War. And taught the women bracelets and ornamentation, and the beautifying of eyelids…and there arose much Godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray and became corrupt in their ways. And these Angels, the Children of Heaven, taught mankind much forbidden things.
And the Archangels Michael, Uriel, Raphael and Gabriel looked down from Heaven and saw much blood being shed upon the Earth, and all lawlessness being wrought upon the Earth. And they went before the Lord of the Most High.
And the Lord of the Most High ordered his loyal Angels, Commanded by Archangel Michael, to utterly destroy the Watchers and the giant children of fornication, the bastards and reprobates. And the Lord said to Raphael: “Bind Azazel and his Watcher breathren hand and foot, and cast them into the darkness; and make an opening in the Desert in Dudael, and cast them therein. The whole of the Earth has been corrupted by Azazel and Semjaza and the Watchers by their teaching mankind forbidden things…..”
THE BOOK OF GENESIS (6) (KJV)
“Now it came to pass that men began to exist in great numbers on the Earth, and daughters were born to them. So, when the Sons of God saw the daughters of men were beautiful, they took wives for themselves of all they chose.
There were Giants on the Earth in those days and afterwards when the Sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men of old, men of renown.
Then the Lord God saw man’s wickedness, that it was great in the Earth. And God was grieved. He sent Michael. And (he sent a flood)….to blot out man whom he created.”
It’s time for answers.
The only other person in the Library is Per L’Enfant – who he has told in no uncertain terms to keep silent.
Heinlen settles in his favorite Queen Victoria wing-back chair and picks up the “Grimoire of Simon Magus.” He takes the stylus and writes two words on the inside window.
“Pactum Vampyrum”
He hears a familiar “Ahem” behind him then sees the wispy outline of Archangel Gabriel come into sharp focus.
ARCHANGEL GABRIEL:
“Hello, there – Per St. Jean L’Enfant! I see you!!! Just a wave will be sufficient!!!
Well, Heinie – did you have to lock Lilith in the barn???
Where is your sense of Etiquette?
ALIGHT – SCHOOL IS IN SESSION! HELLLLLLLLLLO!
L’Enfant! Get in here. You must hear this, too. You can be Heinie’s study-buddy…
YOU BOTH SHOULD ALREADY KNOW THIS – BUT, LET’S RECAP:
First Enoch (10) – now only available in the Ethiopian Bible – Genesis (6) and the Revelation of John (12:7) tells us that after God made man in his image, he sent Watcher Angels to keep an eye on things.
But none of this lesson makes sense without us first meeting Lucifer, the Morning Star.
Why “Morning Star”?
Because he was the first Angel God made. The most beautiful. Most handsome. Most brilliant. Lucifer sat at the right Hand of God. He was God’s Second-in Command. Lucifer had the keys to the Heavenly Kingdom – and he liked it.
He really, really liked it.
God asks Lucifer to assemble a cadre of about 200 Angels from the Angelic Host and assign them to Watch over mankind – God’s pet project. The offspring of his Adam and Eve. The Apples of his Eye.
Lucifer selects 200 Angels – all friends of his led by best buddy, Azazel – to become “Watchers” of Mankind.
But who watches the “Watchers”?
The “Watchers” see the daughters of Men – and get Horney. Major-league Horney. They get all “jiggy-jiggy-with-it” and do the dirty deed. Babies – tons of babies were born to them. Big babies. Giant babies. Crazy Babies who – ultimately – go completely nuts because they’re hybrids of entities that should not have reproduced in the first place.
The degenerate hybrids become cannibals – eating human flesh, drinking human blood, attacking entire villages, eating all the livestock – it’s MAYHEM! Chaos reigns supreme. Dogs sleeping with cats, etc. – a Terra Ferma turd-show!
God gets wind of it all and calls Lucifer, his beautiful, his-favorite, his “Morning Star” and says: FIX IT!
Lucifer sees the problem – but also has another concern: Humanity is reproducing like rabbits! At this rate, the Angelic Host will cease to be favored of God and Humans will become the sole objects of his love. Humans will be his “Crown of Creation”. Lucifer is jealous.
Lucifer likes being Top Dog Angel of all Angel Top Dogs. So – he crafts his own solution. Without running it by God.
He chastises his 200 Watcher-Angel friends BUT creates a cadre of deviant derivatives of the chromosomally debased hybrid Watcher-Babies. It’s his own “Crown of Creation” to cull the human herd: Vampyres. His brainstorm to crimp the rapidly proliferating waves of humanity by offering them up as food stock.
Lucifer signs a scroll giving Vampyres eternal license to “Graze” Humans as food in furtherance of their assigned task of limiting humankind. And since Lucifer is God’s Second-in-Command, he executes the scroll in God’s name and with God’s full authority. Lucifer applies his special “Sigil” – his sacred Coat of Arms – assigned to him by the Lord God himself to formalize accords under seal. Lucifer’s “Sigil” is a symbol shaped like a Chalice, representing creation, power and wisdom. Only he can wield it.
Lucifer’s act of applying his Sigil to the scroll creates a binding Pact between God and Vampyres forever.
The Pactum Vampyrum.
Eventually, God learns of this. He is not happy that his pet “Crown of Creation” is to forever be hunted and bled out as food for Vampyres. He never intended to regulate or limit the numbers of Humanity.
God is Angry. His wrath is directed at Lucifer.
Lucifer – God’s precious-but-treacherous Morning Star – tells God that he would rather “Reign in Hell than serve in Heaven” and declares war against the Heavenly Host. Lucifer departs Heaven to join his 200 Angelic Watcher friends on Earth. They acknowledge Lucifer as their leader forevermore. Thereafter Lucifer is also known as Satan – and the Dragon.
God dispatches Archangel Michael and his cohorts of loyal Angelic forces to do battle with Lucifer – and ultimately wins…..in a manner of speaking.
The fly in the ointment is the Pactum Vampyrum.
Lucifer executed it while he was still in good standing with the Lord, with full signatory authority to bind Heaven and Earth to its terms.
Pacta Sunt Servanda.
God and Heaven are still bound by the scroll. It is Law. Vampyres have the right to “Graze” Humans for blood and nourishment, thereby reducing the numbers of people on Earth.
So, Gentlemen:
QUESTION:
Where does this leave us?”
ANSWER:
A place called Venice in the 16th century where a Hebrew Moneylender named Shylock is suing a Christian Merchant named Antonio for repayment of a loan. Under the terms of their agreement, Shylock – if not repaid in full with interest – is to receive a pound of Antonio’s flesh.
Yes, Gentlemen. Sound familiar?
Go to the shelf and take down your folio of Shakespeare.
Read “The Merchant of Venice”.
And Heinlen – do you still have Simon Magus’ back harness and consecrated Seax blade? Good. Wear it 24/7.
And now, Gentlemen – School is out. I bid you both a fond Good Night.”
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