1
The black Hummer pulls to a slow stop just shy of the cemetary gates.
"This is as far as we go, Reaper." Just Rob turns from the driver seat and looks at him. Timmy Titus opens his backseat door and steps out. Reaper follows behind Timmy Titus.
"Aight then." Tempest nods. "Get dat gate open."
Tempest and Timmy Titus walk across the street and enter the cemetary.
As they walk amongst the gravestones of the dead, Tempest pauses.
"What?" Timmy Titus whispers.
"Somethin ain't right." Tempest said softly.
"They're just dead people."Timmy Titus whispers. "I thought you were supposed to be some bad ass Reaper of somekind."
"Dead people present a problem." Tempest says softly.
"What kind of problem?"Timmy Titus cant believe his ears. "They're DEAD!"
"Indeed. They are dead." a voice calls to them.
Tempest and Timmy Titus pause again, looking up. A few graves away, a dark cape flaps in the wind and you can hear the chuckle from within his hood.
"Darkus." Tempest's expression frowns furiously.
"The beauty of the dead..."Darkus begins to chuckle and waves his hands in between some indistinct ancient enchantment. "...is that they do your bidding...if given life again."
The graves and ground around them begin to rumble.
"Life again?" Timmy Titus asks Tempest in disbelief.
"Ever heard of a zombie?" Tempest asks, willing his scythe into form within his leather gloved hand and twirls it.
"Only in the movies."Timmy Titus says puzzled.
"They ain't just in da movies, kiddo." Tempest assures Timmy Titus.
"What?" Timmy could not believe his ears.
"GO! NOW!" Tempest orders.
Timmy Titus is up the path with amazing speed.
Tempest lets him get far ahead, turns to face Darkus again.
"You will not get the amulet." Darkus laughs.
Tempest glares at Darkus and pulls out the radio from his pocket.
"Change of plans, Rob." Tempest says.
"What?" Rob's voice comes back over the radio.
"Get dat gate open now." Tempest orders. "We fixin ta have a whole lotta company."
"What kinda company?" Rob's voice comes back.
"Da zombie kind." Tempest says and stuffs the radio back in his trenchcoat pocket.
The gravestones begin to stir, as boned hands begin to crawl out of the Earth from each grave that surrounded them. The entire Earth of the cemetary was animated with dead returning to life.
Tempest starts up the path, willing his scythe to dissipate and begins to make haste towards the Holy Grounds gate.
Darkus roars with laughter.
"We'll be waiting for you, Reaper!" Darkus taunts, as zombies crawl out of their graves and gather around him by the dozens. "WE'LL BE WAITING!"
Darkus is joined by two female zombies, each stand in front of him in all of their rotten, undead glory. Maggots fall from Dakota's eye socket, as she hisses in question to the other, white haired zombie, not long dead, still with skin.
"Ah, Sinz and Dakota, my goddesses of the dead."Darkus says with pleasure.
"Why...does thee summon ussssssssss?" Sinz asks.
"Yesssss...why does thee summon usssss?" Dakota agrees in question.
"The amulet, my dears." Darkus points to the Holy Grounds. "It must not escape. Bring it to me."
Sinz and Dakota share a glance at each other and then back to Darkus.
"As ye wish."Sinz nods.
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"Awww, Ice baby. What are we doing out here again?" a vibrant red head turns and asks a highly decorated cop.
"We got a disturbance call for the Holy Grounds." Ice King says, his eyes scanning the cemetary below from in front of his squad car. "Just wanted to see personally that all was still in order, Helly."
"Things look in order from here." Hellz says playfully, as she checks out her man in his uniform.
Ice King glances at her with a smile.
"Just let me make sure..."Ice King says and draws his pistol with trained precision and aims it out at the younger man running up the path.
Timmy Titus stops, a little out of breath, glances back a minute as he catches his breath and looks up at the police officer with his gun drawn on him.
"State your business." Ice King says firmly. "The Holy Grounds are off limits untill further notice."
"I think..." Timmy Titus huffs. "...we're going to have a big problem...in a minute."
Ice King's eyebrows crinkle with curiosity.
"What kind of problem?" Ice King asks.
"He...he said..." Timmy Titus puffs. "Zombies."
"Zombies?" Hellz shoots Ice King a look of surprize.
"Who said?" Ice King interrogates from behind his drawn pistol.
Prismatic smoke begins to appear in between Ice King and Timmy Titus. A scythe is twirled and the staff of the scythe sends Ice King's pistol flying into the night air and into the darkness of the cemetary grounds. The prismatic smoke all forms solid to reveal Tempest.
"A Reaper?" Ice King cannot believe his eyes.
"No time fer games." Tempest assures the cop. "I'm goin in there."
"I don't think so, Reaper." Ice King glares at Tempest.
"Suit yerself." Tempest outstretches his hand and pulls the red head's soul from her and holds it out in front of him.
"She'll live, if ya cooperate." Tempest tells the highly decorated officer. "She'll die, if ya don't."
The gate beeps and the enormous concrete gates begin to slide open.
"Timmy, do yer thang." Tempest orders and Timmy vanishes from sight.
"What the..." Ice King mumbles, as he watches Timmy Titus shrink out of view and watches the stir of leaves from his amazing speed shoot by his feet.
"I'm going to enjoy killing you, Reaper." Ice King growls at Tempest. "Come the full moon, you are dead!"
"I don't think so, Scooter." Tempest sneers, taunting him with the soul of his love.
Every part of Ice King wanted to transform and shred him to pieces, but he was powerless untill the full moon, where he reigns as king of the werewolves.
"You really think you're going to fulfill somekind of stupid prophecy that's been dormant for centuries?" Ice King asks. "Do you realize how long my reach is?"
Tempest's eyebrows crinkle a little with this thought, as he studies the height of Ice King.
"Yer gonna needa stepladder, Hoss." Tempest sneers.
"You son of a..."Ice King growls, steps forward, but pauses as Tempest holds Hellz soul in front of him.
3
Timmy Titus runs with intense speed, as his size begins to grow back to his normal self. He runs up the path of the Holy Grounds to the sanctuary. He hops up every other step with athletic agility and pushes the sanctuary doors open. He took a snoozing police officer by surprize, startling him awake from his chair by the door and with a simple elbow to his face, he was silent again, slumped back in his chair as if he had never been disturbed.
"Night night."Timmy Titus sneers and his attention is drawn up the dark red velvet carpet, in between the rows of pews to each side. The altar ahead laid host to the Amulet Of Legends.
He slowly walks towards the altar and ascends each step slowly. It was illuminated within itself, lighting up da front of the sanctuary with it's mysterious brilliance.
"I feel like Indiana Jones." Timmy Titus whispers.
His eyes dance over it's intricate carvings and it's glowing essence of things he does not understand. His hand outstretches and pauses over it a moment. He can feel warmth from it's surface, power from within it.
"No wonder they've been fighting over this thing for centuries." Timmy Titus says.
His hand touches the Amulet Of Legends and he pulls it from the altar, holding it out in front of him a moment. He sticks it in his pocket and heads for the sanctuary doors.
"I got it." Timmy says into his radio. "Heading out."
4
Ice King turns from his knelt position over his lifeless Hellz.
Tempest hears Timmy's voice on the radio. He sends Hellz soul back into her body and Ice King holds her, as she stirs to life. Tempest seizes the moment and steps into the Holy Grounds. He feels his training taking hold of him. He accepts the spirits of the Holy Ground.
"Baby..."Hellz looks up at Ice King. "What happened?"
"Nothing I can't take care of, love." Ice King assures her. "Be right back."
Ice King rises and follows Tempest into the Holy Grounds.
"You think you run this show, Reaper?" Ice King shouts through gritting teeth and takes a precision swing at the back of Tempest's head. He pauses in puzzlement when his swing passes right through him.
Ice King is furious and swings again, only to become more puzzled for a moment as it passes right through him. Any other entity would be on the ground...swing after swing, all of his training coming to life in his fury and every last one passes through Tempest, as if he wasn't even there.
"The Holy Grounds!?" Ice King almost roars into a question. "How can they protect you?"
"When ya work with Heaven and Hell..." Tempest sneers. "Anythin can happen."
Tempest catches Timmy Titus and turns towards Ice King.
"Step aside." Tempest says.
"That is not an option, Reaper." Ice King says. "The amulet does not leave the Holy Grounds!"
"Today, it does." Tempest assured Ice King.
Ice King is noticing his wolf senses entering him, his compliment of the Holy Grounds. His sense of smell, his athletic prowess...all coming to him in human form.
"I see why you like it here, Reaper." Ice King almost howls.
"Timmy...GO!" Tempest ordered.
Timmy takes a long escape route around Ice King, as Ice King stays focused on Tempest.
Ice King leaps high into the air with a howl and comes down towards Tempest. Tempest side steps, as Ice King makes a crater in the sidewalk with his fist.
"Oh, I see why you like it here!!!" Ice King taunts.
Ice King spins and swings at Tempest again. This time, Tempest is forced to block with a forearm.
"Only one drag ta ya discoverin yer powers in here, Ice..."Tempest says calmly, blocking each attack from Ice King with forearm crosses.
"What could possibly be a down side to this magnificent power?" Ice King roars, as he swings again.
Tempest clamps down on Ice King's forearm and for a moment and they are eye to tinted shades.
"I can hit back." Tempest sneers, as sends an elbow into Ice King's chest.
Ice King flies backwards up the path from the tremendous blow and crashes through the sanctuary doors.
Tempest turns and begins to run towards the Holy Grounds gate. Even with Timmy's brilliant speed, he is gaining on Timmy with unbelievable momentum.
Timmy glances over his shoulder.
"Hey...slow down!" Timmy huffed, as the Reaper opens his arms and grabs Timmy.
"WHOA!" Timmy shouts, as everything around him was becoming blurry from the speed they were gaining.
Hellz looks up in time to see the dark blur rushing towards her and she gets to her knees. She gets to the squad car and pulls it in front of the gate. She glances out the window to see that not only is the blur not stopping, but coming even faster, right towards the squad car.
"Oh, sh..." Hellz mutters and dives out of the squad car.
Tempest penetrates the passenger side door of the squad car and the driver's door blew off and flipped in the air a few times, before it came crashing down close to where Hellz landed.
"How the hell did you do that?" Timmy manages to ask from within the whizzing blur they were in.
"It's da Holy Grounds..."Tempest says. "But it gonna wear off soon now dat we left 'em."
"Wow!" Timmy says. "How are we going to stop?"
"I ain't got dat far yet." Tempest said.
"You WHAT!?" Timmy shrieked.
5
"Something's coming on radar..." Lady Eva announces inside the Hummer. "...and it's really fast."
"They're frequency is jammed. He won't get any back up." Baby confirms.
"We got movement all over the cemetary!" Lady Eva panics.
Rob turns to face the cemetary gates from the driver's seat.
"Zombies." Rob sighs, picking up his radio.
"Timmy! The sun is rising and the vampires had to back off! Tell Tempest they left him a motorcycle just down the street, in front of the club!"
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