Dec 05, 2010 19:18
Voices. Lepus could hear them as though it was a primal echo from some distant time. They emerged from within the white house in front of which he was laying, Lepus felt his face numbly, there was blood matting his hair to his forehead, he rolled over painfully, to crawl out of the road, lifting himself to his feet and seeing no other obvious course of action then to fallow the voices.
It was still morning, tree branches made speckled pools of shade that leopard spotted the sides of houses and left lasers of sunlight aimed all over the road. Lepus recognized the voices now as being two teenage males, he climbed through an open window and casually walked inside, as expected the two boys seemed to be incapable of seeing or hearing Lepus at all.
Though for a brief moment Lepus saw one of the boys eyes move. It was a swift motion that he was sure he must have missed. The boy who had looked at Lepus was diminutive in his baggy black sweater, but looked like a good person. (Lepus considered himself fairly good at judging people by their image.) The other boy was a little older, and looked like a surfer, he was drinking a frosty beer and sitting back, relaxing.
“So, it was like a week ago that we hooked up bro.” said the surfer, sipping his beer. The other scratched his chin, looking nonplussed.
“She told me she was going to Dianne's party, at Rose gate.” stated the boy blandly.
“Ellen called me and said she had a bunch of chicks and shit with her, so, we all went to Brads and got hammered, and, like.” the surfer sipped his beer, shrugging his shoulders. “I pounded her in Pete's bed.” The surfer exploded with harsh laughter but the other boy simply shook his head. “Aaaand, uh, I busted like, two times and then we all left, and the next morning her friend came back alone, and told me not to tell anyone what happened about it, annnd, she fucked me too.” The surfer made a punching motion and grinned widely under his brown aviators. The other boy looked surprised for the first time.
“Claudia?”
“Uh, Yeah, with the black hair and shit.”
“Jesus Christ.”
“Listen, I'm sorry dude, I didnt know you were seeing her, she totally didn't say anything, it's just.” after a moment of silence the boy in the sweater shrugged and lifted his head up.
“it's just what?”
“Well, I'm not trying to brag or anything, but, like, I have a really big cock, no, I'm serious right now, it's really big, and it's the kinda thing that a lot of girls know about by now, so, because you know, girls talk about that kinda shit with each other, and like, I've seen it happen a lot.”
“Seen what happen?”
“Girls who cheat on their boyfriends, like, in a heartbeat, the instant they see my cock, they just like, forget all about that shit, they turn into animals dude.”
“Well, I gotta say, I dont think I would believe you if it weren't for all of the people at the party who saw you leave with her, I mean, you literally just met her the day before.”
“Well, we were making out and shit, and then like, once I started squeezing her tits and shit I got a full on boner, so, like, I took it out, without even saying a word, she took it with both hands and just ate it, big time dude. Yeah, both hands, I dont mean to brag bro, but it's thirteen inches, for real, and the cock head like a stress ball, I dont mean to be gay, no homo or nothin.”
“No, not at all.” said the other boy towards the floor as he massaged his scalp slowly. The surfer shrugged.
“You're better off bro, you don't want a ho bag like that.”
the boy in the sweater let out a single sharp laugh.“HA....I guess you have a point.”
“Don't remind him.” growled Lepus, he watched the boy closely, it looked like his head had twitched. Lepus kept his eyes focused on the boy as he walked into the bathroom and washed his face and body.
Finally the surfer answered his cell phone which had been ringing for a few minutes now, as he talked another young man walked into the room exchange high fives with everyone.
“Even Claudia?” continued the boy woefully. Lepus poked his head outside the bathroom door observing the three boys, looking around the otherwise empty halls and growing concerned.
“Harrison?!” He called out, To Lepus's great surprise, all three boys turned their heads quickly towards him, all of them wearing shocked expressions, frozen in horror. The surfer sprang up on his sandals and pointed at Lepus.
“Who the fuck are YOU man?!” Lepus shrugged.
“Me?”
“Yeah! YOU Asshole!”
“I'm just...hanging out?” Lepus heard a sudden explosion of giggles that he recognized at once as being Libras. Lepus spun around to locate the sound, while the boys became even more alarmed, dialing the police on their cell phones.
“Libra?!” Lepus took off running through the house, Libra was still laughing as they fled like a dog chasing a cat though the back door of the house and out onto the back lawn. Lepus had almost forgotten why he was chasing her when the orange blur of Harrison dropped onto his shoulder.
“Lepus, did any of those boy's look like Cambridge?” Lepus squinted at the sunlight, shaking his head.
“A little, maybe.” Lepus had slowed down by an old oak tree at the end of the back yard. Libra was already leaning against it catching her breath while still laughing at Lepus
“Hanging out? Hahaha!”
Harrison was rubbing his chin. “Well, I'm going to need you to go back in there and tie those boys up, so their all facing each other. Can you do that?” Lepus cleared his throat, and cracked his knuckles.
“Sure, it'll be fun.”
“Bring Libra.” added Harrison insistently.
“Why me!?” shrieked Libra in an outrage, Lepus stepped towards her with hard eyes.
“If Harrison says it's a good idea, then were doin' it.” Libra rolled her large eyes at Lepus and turned away from him.
“Whatever. I'm ready.” Libra yelped in surprise as Lepus scooped her up in his arms and ran back towards the house, sprinting in graceful strides over the backyard of freshly mowed grass.
“Take us in through the wall!” shouted Lepus while it became apparent that he was guiding them both towards the flat wall rather than up the steps to the back door. Libra was surprised but quickly focused her wide eyes on the house before them, and like ghosts they passed through the solid wall silently, gliding through the cupboards and insulation, melting through drywall and wooden posts.
The three boys were still standing in the room they had been found in when the two black figures emerged in full flight through the wall, like demons from thin air.
Lepus grabbed the short boy with the sweater on easily, and shoved him like a rag doll into a near by recliner. Turning his head quickly Lepus reached out with his claw hand and once at full extension the hideous black arm burst apart and morphed into a long black chain that reached one of the boys ankles, spiraling around it in a flash and dragging him back directly to Lepus who caught him in mid air with his other hand, holding him up like a dead rat as his black claw arm reconstituted fluidly.
The surfer scrambled through the door at the last moment, Lepus glanced at Libra who was simply standing with her hands on her hips.
“Will you go get him?” He barked, Libra raised her thick eyebrows at Lepus and walked towards the door.
“You're not afraid that he'll seduce me with his giant penis?”
“Should I be?” Libra flashed him a sharp smile with her black, purple lips, disappearing into the colors of the scenery before her.
“Honestly? You should, this guy is a monster.” commented the boy in the sweater who was sitting in the recliner as though he had no intention of resisting Lepus. “He's had sex with every girl I thought wasn't a slut in the first night of knowing them.” He spoke it quietly as though recalling painful war memories.
“Who the fuck are you!?” Screamed the boy in Lepus's grip, who he dropped at once, clambering to his hands and knees was a young man who did indeed resemble Cambridge, though only in a vague, disconnected way, it had been so long since Lepus had seen Cambridge's face devoid of hideous disfiguring scars that he may have forgotten exactly what it looked like, he was also a bit younger.
But was it him?
Lepus shook his head slightly, squinting at the boy.
“What's your name?”
“Chris, Chris Cambridge.” Lepus's eyes settled on him for a hovering moment in time, this moment of stillness was ended abruptly by the smacking sound of the surfer boys body rolling onto the wood floor harshly, Libra standing over him with a bored look on her beautifully white face. Lepus walked quickly to the edge of the kitchen, by chance there was a new roll of silver tape laying on the counter top. Lepus quickly dragged the boys into different corners and taped their extremities to their chairs. The boy in the sweater displayed no resistance what so ever for his binding. Libra sighed walking around to the other side of the room, beside Lepus.
“Whats supposed to happen now?” she asked hopefully. Lepus was still observing Chris Cambridge carefully.
“I don't know, but it's all Harrison told us.”
“Hey, I recognize you.” Lepus and Libra both looked up unexpectedly at the well endowed surfer who was taped securely to an office chair, it was clear that he was indicating towards Libra who glared back in shock.
“Yeah, you live in the Ferdinand dorm house with those other chicks.”
“Did you have sex with her?” asked the boy in the baggy sweater, almost hatefully. The surfer shook his head.
“No, but she and her friend jerked me off in my freshmen year at a kegger.” Libra looked appalled.
“I have no memories of my human life! I would never touch some total douchebag like you!” screamed Libra in a shrill tone.
“You're the same as every other girl.” mumbled the boy in the baggy sweater. Libra turned on him with wide glowing eyes.
At that moment a black cloud of spiders took over the boy in the baggy sweaters entire body, his shrieks of terror were instantly clouded by the torrent of spiders that went down his throat. The black spiders were eating the flesh, in a small orchestra of clicking and snapping, small fountains of blood would come up from the black heap in tiny geysers. Not even Lepus could stand to watch the horror, he turned his head and unscrewed the cap on his flask and fumbled for his cell phone.
Chris Cambridge and the Surfer were shrieking in horrified panic, struggling against the thick bands of tape around their chests.
“What the fuck is going on!!?” screamed Cambridge just as Harrison picked up on the other end, Lepus walked into the kitchen with a hushed voice over the receiver.
“Lepus? Whats going on in there?”
“One of the kids is definitely Cambridge, the other kid: Libra killed, and the douchebag is still in there, I think the cops are coming too.”
“The cops are already here, actually.”
“Harrison, I got a corpse covered in flesh eating spiders, the cops, and Cambridge is taped to a recliner, help me out here, give me some direction!”
“Okay, first get Libra to lift Cambridge's body through the tape, that will be faster, and then..”
“Lepus! He's free!” Libra's panicked voice erupted through the doorway, getting Lepus's attention just in time to see the Surfer boy running with long strips of tape waving behind him, disappearing into a random doorway. Lepus snapped the phone shut and quickly ran after him, barking to Libra.
“Get Cambridge out of here! The cops are here!” Lepus didn't stop to explain, he sprinted into the next room at full speed, only to be greeted with an aluminum baseball bat directly against his face. Lepus did a sort of half back flip and crumpled up against the wooden floor.
White lights had burst in Lepus's head, everything seemed to be ringing, the blurry outline of the surfer backing away with a scared look on his face came into focus through the blood filling up Lepus's eyes. The surfer was brandishing the bat with both hands, looking at the other room for Libra and apparently not seeing her.
There was three loud knocks at the door.
“Open up! It's the police!” The surfer ran into the next room towards the door, Lepus scrambled to his hands and knees as Libra screamed to Lepus over the struggle of restraining Cambridge.
“He said to kill the cops! Harrison took off!”
“He what!?” choked Lepus though a mouthful of black blood.