Ichor : Blood & Secrets

Chapter 03

"Then I'm afraid these special guests will not be released either." said the kidnapper who draws out his knife from sheath. "Mate, what do you think you're doing?" asked Helsing.

"What needs to be done." said the kidnapper as he slices down the finger of the kidnapped guest despite the yelling of half the crowd on the other side, including Mikeala and her operatives.

"Our demands remain unchanged, unless father Challan released, we will continue torturing your special guests until they perish out of lives." said the kidnapper. "Then what? think you can just kill them and leave if we don't release your father." said Helsing.

"Our demands are for father's vision only, nothing can be changed or altered under any circumstances, and yes, we will kill them, but not leave, we will make you leave this world, just like he visioned you all to." said the kidnapper as he ends transmission, leaving the rest confused. "Great, now Klaus is gonna be furious when he sees this." said Mikeala.

"Calm down, alright? these blockers are just a crap compared to what we faced over the course of years, ain't it?" asked Helsing. "That's different, back then, we didn't have to hold back for anything, now we need to ensure the live of the last living royal family." said Mikeala.

"Royal family? they're British?" asked Helsing. "No, Armenian.. look, I will not lie, the lives of those two are under heavy stakes invested in a large part of a operation, if we don't get them back safety, a huge loss could be devastated on us, one from which we cannot be able to recover from." said Mikeala.

"And what is that.. operation?" asked Helsing to which Mikeala remains silent without uttering a single sound. "That's how it's gonna be then, you want me to help you, yet you will not share me the details?" asked Helsing.

"It's not like that, you know I can't go against Klaus, he's going to put me behind a coffin if he ever found out I told private information regarding his projects." said Mikeala. "I know half the secrets that bloke keeps, you can trust me." said Helsing.

"Not this time, help me, or I won't come with you, I know Klaus sent you to bring me to him." said Mikeala. "Family bonds eh? you blokes do think alike, fine.. I'll help you, once that's done we're heading home to your dear brother, understand?" asked Helsing to which Mikeala nods.

"Alright, first is first, we need to find out where the transmission came from, it's probably masked so.." said Helsing before getting interrupted by one of the technicians who speaks out. "They're at Clifford Street, St Avenue block, the second house on the right." said the technician.

"They're in a house? are you sure?" asked Mikeala. "Well, they did mask their IP address, but I was able to triangulate it's location after taking out fake broadcast signals." said the technician as Mikeala and Helsing approach her place.

"This could be where they are headed at, if you're being right..." said Mikeala. "Or a trap, either way, it's our only way to find out, come on." said Helsing as Mikeala and him head out to the provided destination while the technician carefully bids until they leave, and then sends out a decrypted message, saying they took the bait.

Meanwhile, further in space, on an unknown desolate planet, Klaus awakens, only to find himself crash landed after his recent battle in a midst of a forest where he seemed buried in bundles of rubble from the ship, with one of them having pierced him in the leg deeper.

"Ugh.... ughh.... frak!" shouted Klaus, angered and frustrated by the outcome of the battle. "Damnit... have to... get back..." uttered Klaus before coughing out a vomit of blood, then noticing the planets surface littered with a bulbous flowering plants, one of which seem to burn out the blood of Klaus which he spits out.

Injured, frustrated and confused, Klaus feels helpless to be stuck under, until he hears whispers and sounds of someone approaching, but unable to pinpoint what they are saying due to feeling weakened to which he lays still and silent as the noise draws closer.

After having struggled for hours, he ultimately gives up and shuts off with his eyes closed, giving up the possibility of seeing the light again.

Just then, Klaus hears the noise of something approaching him close as he senses the smell of blood flowing through nearby to which he ultimately loses control and lunges off into the figure, biting it off as he rips it apart and drains the blood of the figure who he has no idea, until he realises it was a child whom he had killed.

"No, no no, no!" shouted Klaus as he drops while his shout attracts even more attention from the others who arrived with the child he had just killed.

Scared and confused, but unable to leave their friend behind, these kids too goes forth to investigate, but are scared away by Klaus who managed to break free from the rubble with the strength of the blood he managed to consume.

"No, wait! stop! come back! tell me where I am! tell me, where am I!" shouts Klaus, but the ones who fled seemed turned away from his sight over the disgust of seeing blood dripping from all over his body as he drops down when slowly rain drips down from the clouds which cleanse him slowly from all the mess as he relaxes.

Meanwhile, Darren and Lucien, still trapped in the virtual reality suddenly caught themselves glitched for a second until they were brought back.

"Hey, did you feel that?" asked Lucien.

"A... glitch.. we're in a simulation." said Darren. "Our brother, dare put us in a simulation, as a prison? woow, that's.. actually quite brilliant, brilliant it is, except for the part where he left us here to rot." said Lucien. "He didn't leave us here by choice, he will come back." said Darren.

"Well then, where is he?" asked Lucien. "I don't know, he should have come by now, something's wrong." said Darren. "Well, now you noticed that, wow, brilliant Darren, what a big ass mind you have.." said Lucien before getting interrupted by Darren.

"I suggest putting your foul mouth aside for the time being until we figure out how to get out of this together, do you understand?" asked Darren. "Well then, I am all ears, brother, but tell me, how exactly do you plan on doing that, where to even start, we went all around this place, there is literally nothing to be found." said Lucien.

"Might seem like that, there is more than one which meets the eye." said Darren. "What are you even trying to say?" asked Lucien. "I'm saying you use more than your eye to find a way out of this place." said Darren.

"Lead the way brother, because I don't know how." said Lucien. "Arrogant, stupid, no wonder Klaus never gave a planet of your own to manage." said Darren. "You're gonna bring that up now?" asked Lucien.

"What I am telling you, is to use your brain, so far we've been only able to see this place, yet what about sound, touch, even smell.." said Darren. "What about it? I don't sense any of those." said Lucien.

"Exactly, because it doesn't exist, this simulation, is incomplete, it hasn't been completely built yet." said Darren. "I see, pray tell, how will that help us get out?" asked Lucien. "Simple, every simulation has a command prompt built-in, once a simulation is completed, the path to one is sealed off, but since this hasn't been completed yet.." said Darren before getting interrupted by Lucien.

"It exists, we just have to find our way to it, but how?" asked Darren. "Cause chaos, if the simulation sense disruption in its core program, it will automatically transfer our conscious into the command prompt while it resets the world, there we can use through that to escape back to our world again." said Darren. "Bold thinking brother, when do we start then?" asked Lucien.

Meanwhile, in the real world, Rebecca awakens all by herself, only to find her strapped into a plain slab across four corners while her mouth is fluffed by a thick cloth which had been forced into her mouth.

Unable to talk, or free herself, Rebbeca tries to break free, but ultimately gives up trying after hours, not knowing what to do, just then, the lights which had been blinking suddenly shuts off in a instant, causing Rebbeca to get frightened as she can sense something climbing into her body slowly.

Just then, as the light flickers back, Rebbeca finds out this figure turning out to be a woman as well, who's skin had been cut and stitched back in various places, as well as her face.

Upon seeing her, Rebbeca finds her appearance to be horrifying and in utter disgust as this woman lays down her venomous teeth, which drips off saliva into her hair which burns it off as the woman steps back while closing her mouth immediately.

"Sorry... he... wants..... you.. untouched.... I mustn't... touch you... yet." said the horrifying woman while Rebbeca remains idle and in tears. Once again, the horrifying woman climbs close to her face and takes off the cloth from her mouth slowly while laying her eyes on her.

"I'm feeling.. lonely, so.. I let you talk.. don't make noise... understand?... quietly talk.. or you will wake him up.." whispered the woman close to her ears, then returns back to her original position with the cloth as Rebbeca starts begging quietly to let her go.

"Please.. please...I'm begging you, set me free, let me go.." cried Rebbeca while the woman grins looking at her cry. "It's....not.. up to.. me... he will talk, he will... let you go... if he wishes." said the woman.

"Who is he? what does he want?" asked Rebbeca.