Apex Predators (4 page)

She hissed through her teeth as the man named Simon,
finished stitching her shoulder wound closed. He had been very gentle with her
in cleaning and fixing her up.

“Sorry, you’re all done now.” She nodded. Her body was sore
to the point of it hurting to breathe. Kira was dead, her eyes filled with
tears. They had only known her for one day but if not for them wouldn’t she
still be alive? She wouldn’t have been at their stupid fucking hotel with them.

“I’m sorry about your friend.” She glared at him. “Sorry?
You should be sorry you’re a fucked up psycho who works as some fucking doctor
to the hundreds of kidnapped woman brought here and killed!” 

He back handed her off of the table she was sitting on. She
tasted blood in her mouth as she went to get up. “What the fuck is your deal?!”
Piper shoved him across the room knocking him into a tray of needles.  “You
little bitch.” He growled out and ran at her friend.

She grabbed his leg and tripped him as he went to charge
passed her. He hissed and she watched fangs come down as he opened his mouth. He
grabbed her up before she could blink and threw her across the room. She landed
on her hurt shoulder and cried out.

He yanked Piper to him by her hair and shoved her onto
the table. She looked around and grabbed a scalpel that had been knocked on the
floor. Piper screamed as he bit down on her neck.

“Get the fuck off of her!” She screamed and dug the scalpel
into his neck as far and jagged as she could. He gulped like a fish and sunk
down. Piper grabbed an ice pick looking tool and rammed it into his forehead.
Remembering they had to severe the head or hurt the brain to kill them.

“You okay?” She asked her friend. “Yeah, but we just killed
their doctor, what the fuck do we do now?” She looked around the room. She
locked the door and went to peak through a window in the back corner of the
room. It was dark out.

The roof was right there but the drop would hurt them,
maybe kill them and they needed to be able to run. “We need to try and get away
from here.” She gently opened a door that led to a powder room.

Using a white hand towel she wiped her face and scrubbed
the blood from her chest and arms. She put her mouth to the faucet and let
water run into it before turning the water off and going back to Piper who was
rummaging through cabinets along the wall of the room.

“Take two of these, I already have.” She caught the
bottle of pills her friend tossed her. Pain pills, she quickly took two and
tossed the bottle down.  Piper opened the lower cabinets. “Jackpot.” She
quietly said. She pulled out a long black case and an Ax in a weird box. 

She took the ax for herself and tested how it felt in her
arms. She could deal with this. Piper opened the case and took out a long steel
machete. “So, how are we doing this?” She asked standing and looking at her.

“We have to be quiet, they keep the stables dark so
that’s a bonus for us but if these people really are vampires I’m sure they
have some type of night vision so maybe not.” She gnawed her lip. They needed
to move they were wasting too much time.

“Look, I don’t know if this is going to work Pipes.”  Her
friend nodded. “I know Morgan, but we have to try and if I get caught then
don’t look back, try and keep going.” She shook her head. “I can’t leave you
Piper, you know they’ll kill you and do God knows what else if were caught.” Her
friend nodded again.

“It’s better than us watching each other die.” She didn’t
respond to that. She couldn’t watch Piper die, she was practically her sister. 
“Let’s go.” She said softly. She quietly moved forward and silently opened the
door.

She was right in her assumption no one was in the hall,
surely someone would have heard the yelling and came in if there had been.

She moved in the direction of the stairs, her hands firmly
around the handle of her ax, Piper right behind her. The building was silent.
They crept down the stairs and down a row of empty stalls.

They turned down a hall that had two wide exit doors at the
end, she heard voices coming towards them. Piper grabbed the handle of a door
to their immediate left and opened it pulling her in and pushing it silently
closed. The room was freezing and a soft blue light was the only thing
illuminating what the room held.

Freezers, that’s what they were looking at rows of
freezers. She lifted the lid of the one closest to her and swallowed silently gagging
and pushing the lid back down. Piper covered her mouth and moved away. It was
filled with cut up body parts, all arms and legs. She looked at the lids and
saw they were labeled. The one beside it read ‘Torso’. This was beyond sick,
her stomach turned.

A voice stopped right outside the door. “Go to stall 93,
she always lets me have my way and she has a great set of tits.” She heard a
man say to someone else. They backed away into a corner. The door opened and a
tall man wheeled a wheel barrel in.

she squeezed her eyes shut and Piper gripped her hand. It
was obvious the dismembered body in the wheel barrel was or used to be Kira.

As the man opened the lid of a freezer she silently came up
behind them. As he turned around she swung her ax down into his head. His mouth
opened but no sound came out. Blood ran down his face. She yanked the blade out
of his head and swung down again to make sure he was dead.

She wondered if she should be worried she could kill so
easily but then she saw the wheel barrel and she had seen the freezer, she had
watched woman be killed for a sick sport. No, she shouldn’t be worried. They deserved
it and ten times more.

Piper squeezed her shoulder behind her. She nodded and
they left the room without looking at the wheel barrel again. She couldn’t
break down and cry right now. They walked against the wall towards the exit
doors.

As they almost reached them another man turned the
corner. His face in his phone he didn’t even see them. Piper stepped out and
swung the machete in a clean sweep knocking his head from his body that hit the
body in a soft thud.

They darted passed him and made it to the doors. They
pushed them open and stepped out into the night. They wasted no time and went
straight into the trees a few feet away off the path leading to the doors. They
had popped out on the side of the building. They weaved their way through trees
and thick plants.

“Let’s pick the pace up.” She said already breaking into a
jog. Piper kept pace with her easily. They had jogged maybe ten minutes when
some kind of alarm that sounded similar to a tornado warning went off. “Let’s
run now!” Piper yelled. They broke into a run pushing them forward. They ran a
good few minutes before popping out in a flat open field. Being in the open was
a bad idea. “This way!” They ran right and came to another tree line and
entered.  As they ran she could hear shouting from in the trees and cars being
started.

It was only a matter of time before they were caught. They
broke through the trees again and came out where a large metal warehouse stood
alone. They ran towards it and slipped in.

They had come in through a side door and she looked around
at rows and rows of cars, Rvs, trucks and even motorcycles. One of these had to
be drivable. “Let’s see if there’s a working pickup.” She suggested. “Good
idea.” They set off down rows of cars.

They were passing a minivan when she heard a door open. They
ducked down and stopped moving. “Check everywhere, Master Caedmon is livid we
let this happen.” A woman’s voice spoke.  Piper nudged her and pointed. She
followed her finger to where the tops of pickups could be seen and then to a
few rows over in the opposite direction a red flashing light was blinking, a
car alarm.

How were they going to set that off? She looked around but
didn’t see anything. She heard footsteps still towards the door they had come
through. She slowly rose and peeked into the van. She spotted a pair of heels
on the floor.

She gestured to Piper who slowly rose and crouched to
watch the woman searching for them. She gave her a thumb up and she opened the
front van door quietly. She reached in and got the heels. She shut the door
back with a click. She had no idea what car it was exactly that had the alarm so
she guessed and launched one heel in the direction and then the other. She
heard one pang off of something and the other hit the target. An alarm started
blaring.

They took off at a crouched run as she heard footsteps
running to where the alarm had gone off. They reached the pickups and she went
straight to maroon one with thick tires. Peaking in, she saw keys hanging in
the ignition. She opened the door and Piper slid in.

She hopped in and closed the door hitting the lock button.
She turned the key. The truck roared to life. She heard yelling but drove
forward. There were so many cars here. That meant so many people had fallen
victim to these monsters.

There was a line of police cars she passed. “Turn right!”
Piper yelled and she jerked the wheel right. A large metal door was straight
ahead. One of the women stood in front of it. She smashed the pedal down
speeding up. The woman dove out of the way seeing she would have run her over.

They smashed through a large metal door and into the night.
She swerved onto a road that led away from the warehouse. The road seemed to go
on forever but they finally reached a stretch of empty highway. She turned left
and gunned it.

She checked the trucks gauges to see if it had any issues
but it didn’t that she could see from the dash. They didn’t celebrate; they
weren’t out of the woods just yet.

They drove and drove and she finally saw the sign of a
town called Kirkwood a mile away.

The sun had begun to rise and the trucks gas light came on
as they entered the town. “This place looks abandoned.” Piper said glancing
around. It did look abandoned. “Look!” She pointed to a small brick building
that said police station.

They drove to it and she didn’t bother parking the truck
she just threw it in park in the center of the parking lot and they got out.

The sign on the door read “CLOSED”. “Since when do police
stations close?” She asked. “It’s pretty empty here; maybe they don’t have a
reason to be open?” Piper suggested. That’s when she got a good look at the
police car interior parked off to the side.

“We need to go.” She turned to leave but stopped in her
tracks. A man in a police uniform was smiling at them from the end of the ramp
they had run up. “Is there a problem ladies?” He grinned. The cop car was
coated in stained blood seats on the inside. She knew he wasn’t a real cop.

Piper shifted behind her. The man withdrew a gun and
cocked it. “Why don’t you put the ax and knife down?” She was not going back
there to that living hell. “Just shoot me, I’m not going back!” She yelled. Her
heart was racing and she saw no way out of this.

He turned and shot the two front tires and grill of the
truck. It started smoking after a minute. That was their exit.  “I’m not going
to ask you again, Master Caedmon and Master Cieran requested both of you be
brought to them, alive.” He grinned again.

Well she sure as fuck wasn’t going back now. She dodged
to the right he fired and missed. Piper hopped the railing and went left. They
took off in opposite directions. She ran around the back of the building she
heard the fake cop running behind her. She didn’t see him raise the night stick
and hit her in the back of the head.

It was like one minute she was running the next she was
in a dark room. Her arms were in rings hanging above her head. Her feet were
chained to the floor and she was completely naked. Her head ached. Piper was
tied beside her in the same position.

“You’re awake.” She knew who it was, one of the brothers,
the one with blue eyes. “You two are special. Do you know not one single person
has ever made it passed the exit hall, let alone out of the doors and all the
way to Kirkwood?”  He smiled. “I and my brother are very impressed.” He started
rolling up his cuff links after removing his suit jacket.

“Morgana, I think I like you and your friend here.” How
did he know her full name?  “Surprised? You have two sisters, neither as
stunning as you; your parents are still together. You came out here to get away
from your ex Ryan.” She just looked at him.

“Then your car had to overheat.” He shook his head making
a tsking sound. “Kira assured me you were just as pretty in person as I had
believed.”  Kira set them up!? He’s the reason her car overheated!? “I see it
clicking together for you.

Kira wouldn’t have been working at that gas station if it
weren’t for me, she worked for us for years now, she usually is very well
behaved but, she liked you two. I can see why.”

That little bitch! She was just as sick and fucked up as
they were. She was like a recruiter. 

“Now Morgana, I’m not going to kill you, but I must punish
you.” He walked behind her. He placed a gag around her mouth and Pipers who had
just woken up.

“You’re body is perfect.” She couldn’t even flinch as he
ran his hands down her back and cupped her ass. It was quiet for a minute and
then she heard a buzz through the air and almost ripped her arms out of the
sockets when a whip landed on her back. She cried out in the pain around her
gag.

He didn’t stop for one second. He began hitting her back
like it was a canvas. She could feel her skin splitting open and blood running
down her back. She was choking on her sobs around her gag and screaming with
each agonizing blow. The blood was running over her ass and dripping down her
legs.

Her arms felt as if they were about to be ripped from her
body the more she pulled.

He landed one last hit and then she heard the whip drop.
She was quietly sobbing.

Why was this happening to them? They were good people, they
volunteered at nursing homes and animal shelters, she babysat for free and she
was never mean to anyone. She had just bought strangers groceries last week.

She didn’t even have it in her to attempt to move when she
felt his lips on her back. She wanted to throw up. His tongue came out and she
whimpered as he ran it along her wounded back licking the blood. “You taste
exquisite.” He placed a kiss to her back and then reached up and unhooked her.

He unhooked her feet and lifted her in his arms. “My
brother will be coming to see your friend.” That made her cry harder. “Now, now
he won’t kill her; she’ll get the same punishment you got.” She didn’t pay much
attention after that.

The pain was excruciating. Her back would be ruined, that
may have seemed trivial but it mattered to her.  He carried her up a set of
stairs in the house and went to one of two doors on this level.

He pushed it open and she was carried through what looked
like a living room but as he turned and went through an archway they entered a
bedroom and then a large bathroom.

He deposited her into a large jetted tub that had the
drapery drawn over the windows that surrounded it. He turned the water on and
warm water soon hit her feet and the tub started to fill.

He turned and walked out of the room. She wasn’t an idiot,
she wasn’t going to try and escape, not in this condition and not without a
plan.

The water was at her back now and she gritted her teeth
against the pain. The tub water quickly went from clear to red. She put her
head on her knees and quietly wept.