Chapter 298 - Home Sweet Home (1/2)
The building was empty except for the fresh blood and warm bodies that littered the ground.
Even once they got outside to the gated area, there was no one there. Looking around, Laz and Ruby had a bad feeling. Before they could even say a word to each other, Ruby's phone went off and she answered it while walking away from Laz. From the interior of the building, Helen, Jennia, the sisters, Remi, Damien, and all the others emerged from the building, followed closely by Dwayne.
”What is it?” Dwayne asked.
”Just to double check this. You for sure heard this from Tommy? Even over the gun fire and people screaming?” Laz wanted to know, turning back to the confused Dwayne.
”Well yeah. I be figuring he would be the one to listen to after all....”
”You're right... but damn I wish you had been mistaken.” Laz said as Helen, Jennia, Remi and even Dwayne's phones went off at the same time. It seemed like the only person not getting a call was Laz.
'Oh wait... I don't have a working phone again....' He thought, remembering he had destroyed another one.
'Honestly though... do they make cases for this kind of activity? I mean... their phones all survived. Maybe if I get one of those military grade ones...' Laz pondered to himself.
”Baby... About how many of those things got through?” Ruby asked, turning her head over.
”Uh... well... if I didn't miss any... I would say around one hundred?”
”Oh fuċk...” Although Ruby's phone wasn't on speaker, it was still loud enough to hear the voice on the other end.
Laz felt like the voice belonged to someone he knew and was about to ask, but Ruby had turned her head again and was talking.
”This is crazy.”
”Remi doesn't care. But the man next to me suggests that everyone gets away fast. Him...?” Remi looked over at Damien. In truth, they were the only two who survived from the council group.
”Damien mam. Just tell them Damien said to run.” Damien had been listening and knew that they had called Remi since Laz didn't have a phone and Damien's opinion didn't matter.
”Ok right. K. Lazzy?” Remi called over, getting Laz's attention.
”Yeah?”
”The Julia person says... um... something about flying shit...?”
”Julia said the shit hit the fan. She will contact everyone to get away asap and was taking someone named Abraham with her. Your stuff will be packed and waiting at the apartment so you can take it and run. She will contact us once she arranges a place to stay,” Damien finished Remi's words for her, having actually paid attention to what had been said.
Laz was relieved but couldn't help but ask,
”How bad is it?”
”From her words... the entire city is blowing up and there are broadcasts already from the Children of God that the heathens had unleashed these beasts upon the world. Apparently there is a video of Dwayne coming through the gate, yelling 'they are coming' before getting blown into swiss cheese followed by the ċȯċkroaches entrance.”
”Apparently the big one destroyed almost all of the defenses before the others even got through. It was pure luck that the two that were killed were killed. After that they chased after the people who were fleeing with the new ones just following the blood trails,” Helen said hanging up her phone.
”How did I look?” Dwayne asked, picking up on the fact that a video he was in was going viral.
”Like a dead cat spit up a half digested mouse,” Jennia said, hanging up her phone.
”How could a dead cat spit up a digested mouse if it was dead?” Dwayne asked, insulted.
”Someone stepped on it. Anyway, we have to go now. Everyone, prepare to move,” Jennia ordered her people.
”On me all. Let's go,” Helen gathered up her remaining followers and quickly took off as well.
The only ones left were the Ivy's, Ruby, Laz, Remi and Damien.
”What do we do now boss?” Damien asked, looking at Laz.
”Get together who you can and get the hell out of the city. Wait for the call from Julia and meet up with her or go underground.”
”Remi doesn't know what that means,” Remi said with a confused look in her eye.
”It means you should go someplace quiet and hide out. Don't go on social media, don't got anywhere near a government building or any place that might have cameras. Don't get your id checked anywhere. Make sure to use a car that can't be connected to either of you. And don't contact anyone until you hear from Julia. And I mean anyone,” Ruby answered for Laz.
Remi and Damien looked at each other before nodding to Laz and heading off.
Laz couldn't help but look at them weirdly.
”They seem to be much closer now,” Laz commented, remembering when Damien used to just be Remi's errand boy.
”Almost dying will do that to you. Besides, everyone needs someone they can trust their back to,” Ruby mused.
”Good point. What about you girls?” Laz asked the sisters.
”We are going to follow you for now,” they did their freaky thing and responded in unison.
”But I can't...”
”Baby. I have to get going to. Since I'm the closest of us sisters, I have to get to our branch office and get things set up to move. From what big sis says, they are moving in more and more troops and not just national guards either. What are you going to do?”
”I uh...”
:WE NEED TO TALK,” Laz felt a bolt of lightning hit his brain as the strong thoughts of a females voice entered his head. Laz felt like he hadn't heard from her in a while.
”I need to go meet with someone,” Laz said, hesitantly.
”Meet with someone? Who?” Ruby asked.
Laz didn't respond directly and just pointed to where the tattoo would have been on his ċhėst if her wasn't wearing clothes. This was enough for Ruby to understand that he didn't want it shared with the sisters since he didn't trust them with this.
”Ah. Ok. I'll call you in a .... oh right. No phone.” Ruby said, looking a bit frustrated at his inability to stay in touch with people.
”Call us. We will be close,”
”You know that really is kind of spooky,” Ruby said, looking at the girls. But she didn't press the issue. She just nodded. As soon as she had, a car that was speeding down the drive pulled in, driving over the already smashed gate and coming to a stop next to Ruby.
”I won't be long baby. Don't do anything crazy, ok?”
”I don't cause that much trouble, do I?” Laz said shaking his head.
”Yes. Yes you do,” Ruby said, giving him a quick kiss and dashing off.
Now Laz was left alone with the four girls and he couldn't help but ask,
”Why do you want to follow me?”
”You can help us.”
”Help you?”
”Yes. Mistress said your blood is capable of healing our bodies.”
”Uhh...” Laz was confused.
”What are you going to do now?” The conversation was being led by just one of the sisters, remembering that Laz was creeped out that they all said the same thing at the same time.
”I... uh... Well... I need some place to sleep?” Laz said, not quite sure. Although A'ruya had said she needed to talk to him, he only knew how to meet her in his dreams. This wasn't in fact the case because of his link with her, she could actually drag him to her right away. But since she knew he wasn't alone or in a safe place at the moment, she didn't do that.