18 Third Moon (1/2)
Derrick walked down the last stretch of road leading to the school gates, Kara was shortly behind him. He saw Sasha embrace another matriculant, a tall guy with brown hair, he had similarities to Jason, so he presumed it was Damien. He came past them, not bothering with their conversation when suddenly he got grabbed by his shoulder and slammed against a nearby wall. Damien came face to face with him.
”You fucking bastard” He said angry as a wounded lion.
”Who the fuck are you?” Derrick asked, his day started bad enough, and this asshole was just what he needed.
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”Im Damien, Jason's older brother”
”Oh, now i see, same turdy attitude”
”You're going to pay for what you have done!”
”What have i done?”
Damien went silent, his angry expression water'd down.
”Tell me fucker!? You come into my face! And threaten me!? So tell me!? What have i done!?” Derrick yelled and pushed Damien away.
”This isn't over!” Damien said ealking off, Derrick saw Sasha's disappointed face as she left with him. But Derrick was fired up, all this shit happening recently, he was done playing nice guy.
”Yes it isn't over, come here! So i can teach you the same fucking lesson i taught that scum brother of yours!”
Damien turned around and walked straight at him.
”Damien!” Sasha yelled.
”Derrick!” Kara yelled.
Damien stopped in front of Derrick, Derrick already had a fist ready.
”Enough! You won't start a fight here!” Sasha said.
The two girls didn't know what would have happened, Damien was twice the man Jason was, and they already knew what Derrick could do, it would have been a bloodbath.
”Lets go Damien” Sasha said but Derrick grabbed him by his collar and drew him close.
”Listen here you shit!” Derrick whispered ”You so much as touch either Sasha or Kara, you're going to suffer before you die”
”Derrick!” Kara said pulling him away from Damien.
”Let go!” Derrick said ripping away from Kara's grasp.
Damien smiled as he left with the two sisters, Kara only glared at him over her shoulder.
Perfect, he thought, that got her angry at him. Now before she got a chance to come to him some time throughout the day and ask him to apologise, he turned around and left the school.
***
Set up under neath cammo nets, the Ratel layed in wait like a stalking lion. Koos set it up in such a way that only is guns and smoke grenade launchers stuck out the net, then they stood in a bush roughly the color of the net. Waiting since before the sun rose they ensured no one saw them park there. Frits calculated that the vehicle would pass around six, a time where the highway wouldn't be too busy.
”Three klicks in closing” Frits said.
”I see them, white panel van, tinted windows” Koos said. It was currently the only approaching vehicle.
”Start it up Piet, get ready to move”
Piet started the engine.
”Two K's”
”Im going to fire on one” Koos armed the guns.
Seth felt a bloodlust urge then stood up in the van, his first assumption was Shiva, since she's the one most mentally unstable.
”Don't start your shit now Shiva!” Seth yelled, but she looked at him shocked.
”What the fuck are you talking about!?”
”Someone's targeting us!” Claire yelled kicking the brakes but it was too late.
The two mini guns roared along with the constant rapid fire of the four twenty cannons, the onslaught tore through the van like a soda can, Claire had the van in reverse but the ninety cannon boomed hitting the engine, the van got blown backwards making a flip and landing on its back. The rapid weapons of the Ratel still combed the van, its auto cannons fired explosive tips and there were constant unstopping explosions all through the vehicle, another shot from the ninety sent the van flying into the air, and finally the guns ceased. The echo of all the weapons still running like rolling thunder, then silence.
”Cars incoming, no time to confirm kill” Frits said.
”Piet! Evasive maneuvers!” Koos yelled.
Piet hit a button and slammed reverse. The Ratel fired smoke grenades all around it, covering it completely, as the smoke shield was up the Ratel reversed away, turned around and disappeared.
***
Derrick got home and packed a bag. In order not to raise suspicion he also dressed in casual clothing. He may not have his drivers license yet, but at this moment, he couldn't give a damn.
Outside he took his father's pickup and left the house. Derrick's grandfather's house was in Wolwekraal north of Pretoria, about a fifty kilometer drive. He havent been to the farm since his parents died, and longed for some farm work. Every weekend they would go there as a family, Him, Seth, Shiva, Silvia, and Elsje. Those were the good old days, before he and Seth started fighting and thats also where Seth talked him and his sisters, into killing someone.
”It will be easy, we all know what to do? Right? We all know how to use knives, and with Derrick's eaps, no grown man can stop us”
They headed to the neighboring farm, and attacked the farmer and his family. That time Derrick felt it normal, it felt so fucking normal. To this day he didn't know what drove him to break that mans neck, the problem was, he enjoyed it. The local authorities said it was a farm attack, one of the recently uprising crimes in South Africa, so they weren't suspected.
When Michael found them with the bloody knives and Derrick with bloody hands, he completely lost it, Seth beaten nearly to death, and his sisters sent to live with their father. Later he heard Shiva killed their father aswell so Michael agreed to allow the triplets to live with Dianne again, this time Michael kept a close eye on them. Thats when the tension between Seth and Derrick started. All five of them craved to kill again, but didn't want to risk facing Michael, so Shiva came up with the idea of the two brothers fighting each other. Derrick at first didn't want to, but Seth kept fishing him out, until he couldn't stand it any longer. They beat each other untill one passed out, only then did the fighting stop. Later on the fights, the rivalry, everything intensified, leading to cart races, bike races, mountain climbing, even hunting was a show off between the two, and the sisters enjoyed every moment of it. Untill that one faithful day, when they were on a trip to the Fish river canyon in Namibia, another fight between the two broke out, right on the edge of the one kilometer drop down into the canyon. Seth beat him but before he knocked him out, he picked him up saying.
”If you survive this little brother, know that if we meet again, we wont shake hands, we wont see each other as brothers, only as enemies... I hope you do, because i really enjoy our little fights”
Seth held Derrick over his head then dropped him over the side. Derrick felt every blow, every rock and branch as he went down, the pain was numbing and made him faint. When he woke up, jackals were already eating from him, he kicked at them and they scrammed. The pain in his body didn't allow him to get up, so the jackal kept coming back for more, it felt like hours when he eventually could get up and walk, he found a staircase that led out of the canyon and started to climb, looking back, those three jackal's still stood staring at him.
At the top Michael was waiting for him, standing with his arms folded.
”Dad?”
”Took you long enough runt!”
”You knew i was down there?”
”Yes”
”Why didn't you come save me?”
”Why must i do that!? Look! You made it up yourself!”
”Yes but...”
”I dont raise pussies Derrick, and if you died down there, then you were just a pussy. But now that you're here, your training can begin”
Derrick rubbed his eyes as he drove, those were hard times. Michael didn't go easy on him, making him do pushups, situps, pullups, he even chased him with the pickup, if Derrick dared slow down, Michael would ram him. Then Michael taught him to forge weapons out of every day things like brooms and chairs, Derrick could even make a weapon out of a rubber inner tube when he was done with the training. He missed his father, regardless of the severe hardships he had under him, that man gave him a sense of direction in life... Now, werewolves, strange cats, wierd girls, and the thought of Seth returning, it was too much for him after his mother and father's death.
His phone rang and without looking at the ID he picked it up.