The Pentagram Child: Part 2 (Afterlife Saga Book 5)

by Stephanie Hudson

  “You could be helpful you know.”

  “I got you the wig didn’t I?”

  “Yeah and now I need your jacket.” I almost laughed at his horrified face.

  “Oh hell no! That is not happening Kitten!”

  “Don’t be a wuss, I will get it back to you, now hurry up as she will be out of sight any minute.” If I hadn’t been in a rush I might have doubled over with laughter at the sight of Jared looking torn…man, he must have really loved this jacket.

  “Alright but I swear if anything happens…” He said as he shrugged out of it and handed it over…reluctantly.

  “Yeah, yeah I’m puppy chow, got ya! Ooh perfect.” I said slipping it on and finding a pair of sunglasses in the inside pocket.

  “What’d you want next, my wallet!?”

  “Sissy.” I called him.

  “Thief.”

  “You will get over it, now how do I look?” I said putting on the sunglasses that reminded me of the terminator.

  “Like Keira only in a fucking stupid wig, shades and my most prized possession.” I just groaned at him and his helpful ways.

  “Well it’s all I’ve got so I will just have to roll with it.” I said and was about to walk away when he shouted for me to wait. He then jogged over to one of the female guests and said a few things to her. Next thing I knew he was jogging back to me after she had dug something out of her handbag.

  “Time of the month…did you need a tampon?”

  “Haha, funny little shit ain’t ya?” Jared said with fake laughter.

  “It must be the wig.” Jared tried not to smile at my comment but I could see him fighting a smile.

  “Come here and hold still.” He pulled me closer to him and repositioned me so I had light on my face. Then he produced the item he’d borrowed from the woman waiting and I felt him draw a circle on my nose.

  “There! Every clown needs a red nose.”

  “You’re enjoying this aren’t you?” I said sarcastically up at him and he nodded winking at me.

  “There she is, walking through the crowd.” Jared said looking over me and I turned to face the window I had my back to, to see he was right.

  “You go and I will assemble my men to take the exits in case she runs. Shout my name and I will hear you.”

  “Ok, got it.” I said seeing the side entrance and deciding this was my best bet.

  “Oh and Keira…” I stopped to look back at him and saw he was both worried about letting me go but obviously the sight of what I was wearing was making him smile.

  “Take care of my baby.” I rolled my eyes and said sarcastically,

  “I will guard her with my life.” Then I patted the jacket and was off out of sight.

  I wasn’t going to lie, I felt like a grade A idiot but on the plus side I actually felt a bit underdressed next to all these crazy characters. The room was filled with a mass of colour and this was what I could imagine was Pip’s dream wonderland looked like. Or at least the people she would allow into it.

  From what I could see of the room it was incredible and like stepping back in time. Of course you had to cancel out all the added extras that were obviously chosen by Pip. For example the ball pit in one corner that was filled with different coloured neon paints and lit up with a black light so everything was glowing. At the moment there were three people wrestling and one woman who looked like she was having a jolly good time playing with herself…if you know what I mean.

  Then there were the giant ice sculptures dotted about the place for the sole purpose of drinking absinth though ice. One was carved into the shape of a massive rollercoaster and someone had their mouth on one end and a waiter (this time dressed as one of the characters from the goonies) was pouring green liquid from the top. In fact the only reason I could tell some of the staff were there to do a job was by the frilly spotted aprons they were made to wear.

  One who walked past me offering people turkey twisters on sticks was dressed as one of the Thundercats and in a pink frilly apron this was quite a sight to be seen. The inside of the building that could be seen was back to its former glory and the plaster work alone was breath taking. I only wished I had enough time to look around but all of the little glimpses of the house I was seeing were only from scanning the room looking for Aurora’s blue dress.

  I just turned in time to see her as my eye was caught by one of the entertainers blowing fireworks from their mouth instead of the usual fire breathers. The dancing coloured sparks had just finished when I saw the bottom of her dress disappearing from sight as she walked up the staircase on the opposite side of the room.

  I think I was in the entrance hall but it was so filled with people I couldn’t tell for sure. All I knew was that it was a long room and had an open balcony running all the way around above us showing us the first floor. Right ahead of me was an open doorway showing the staircase beyond it and was framed by two roman pillars either side of it.

  I pushed and ducked my way through the best I could and I was thankful nobody was taking any notice of me. I saw the stairs branch off both left and right but missed which side she had taken. I finally managed to get myself to the other side when I had to slip past a man dressed as a bear in a rockabilly style dress…he was even wearing a head scarf tied into a big red bow on the top of his animal head.

  I ran through the opening thanking my lucky stars that not many people wanted to linger out here and ran up the staircase picking the left side. By this time Aurora was out of sight but thankfully when I reached the top there weren’t many doors to choose from. One door was to my right and facing me there was an open doorway that led onto the balcony which then had one at its centre. I was just about to try the first door when I was met by a familiar face.

  “Pip?!”

  “Toots?!” Pip threw herself into me after having a moment of shock at seeing me not just in the flesh but no doubt with what I was wearing…although knowing Pip this might have been an everyday wardrobe choice.

  “Oh by the power of Grayskull! Thank my lucky star knickers! I knew it! I just knew it! I would have bet my paper plate collection that you were still alive and kicking and I told Adam as much!” She said getting so excited about seeing me I had tears welling up.

  “Hey, don’t you start crying now or you will ruin all your birthday makeup!” I said referring to her eyes which were painted with a comic book scene over each eyelid. Although I had to admit, it looked like quite a pornographic one. I dreaded to think about the poor girl that had to paint the 69’er through her eyebrow. I had to laugh because one part of her eyebrow’s hair was left unpainted and acted as the pubic hair for one guy. They even had little speech bubbles, one saying, ‘Are all you guys on the same team?”

  Of course now one of the bums was dripping down her cheek because of her tears and I couldn’t stop myself from saying,

  “You have ass on your face.” To which we both burst out laughing as I tried to wipe it away.

  “Yeah well you look like Rudolph at some 70’s disco!” She said as her come back and we were both off laughing again. So much so for a moment I had completely forgot what I was here for.

  “Pip, I saw Aurora come up here, do you know where she went?”

  “That bitch! You know she told the king you were dead! I mean none of us wanted to believe it but then she handed him your hair and…”

  “Pip, I know, I know! Now focus, I need to find her and discover what she’s up to before she finds out I got out.” At this Pip’s face got very serious and even with the porn painted on her face, it was a very scary sight to witness.

  “What did she do to you?”

  “Now Pip, just wait a…”

  “TOOTS TELL ME!” She screamed in a rage and then a door opened and I was quickly shoved into a doorway recess and Pip shouted dramatically,

  “TELL ME YOU’RE STILL ALIVE SOMEWHERE, OH MY DEAR SWEET CARROTCAKE…YOU WERE TOO YOUNG TO DIE!” And then she threw up her arms and started crying.

  “Do
you need a pill or something?” I heard Aurora ask her in a shitty way and Pip just jumped up off the floor she had slumped to and said,

  “Nope, I should be fine, I just miss my friend so much…are you sure she’s like dead and shit?” To which Aurora just replied in a curt manner,

  “Yes, quite sure.” And then slammed her door shut. I poked my head out from behind the recess and Pip said,

  “She’s in there.” I had to laugh.

  “I know Pip.”

  “So what’s the plan Stan?” She asked following me and I stopped and held her back by the shoulders.

  “My plan is to try and sneak in there and see what’s she up to, your plan is to inform the others.”

  “Wow, Big boss man King is going to shit rainbows when he knows you’re still alive!” I almost choked on that mental image.

  “Not unless he’s taken Unicorn pills, now is there any other way into that room?”

  “Sure, it’s the state room and has access through that door for the maids and other poor lackeys there to doing the bidding of posh twonker donks and toffee nosed tw...” I held up my hand cutting off her rant before it got too explicit.

  “I’ve got ya. Ok, so I came with a few …uh…friends.”

  “You mean biker dudes that turn into rip your face off dogs right?” Wow, she was good.

  “Yeah, that and a cowboy who’s not in fancy dress but don’t ask. I asked them to cover the exits in case she runs. But I need to know, have you seen Seth?” Pip frowned at me and scratched her green hair that was all in plaited bunches with the blue ends all curly hanging down and bouncing with her erratic movements.

  She looked utterly adorable.

  But this, combined with what she was wearing, was just something else. It was a short dress with a tight top that moulded to her little breasts and had tiny plastic toys attached to the black material, ones that looked as if they had been collected from Kinder surprise eggs.

  But it was the skirt part that was really amazing and took me back to my childhood. It was made up of massive material flowers and each one was a different 80’s cartoon. From the ones I could see there were He-Man, She-Ra, Jem, Gummi Bears, Rainbow Bright, Snoopy, Carebears, My Little Pony (both original and new) even ones like Galaxy High School, Chip n Dale and Muppet Babies. In fact it looked like she had made each flower from kid’s old bedding sets throughout the 80’s.

  “You mean the dude that’s all loco about Pinky?” She answered and I dragged my eyes away from her dress.

  “You mean RJ…he’s still got RJ with him?!” I said getting panicky and completely forgetting this factor when Aurora first mentioned his name.

  “Uhh well Yeah! The dude won’t let the righteous babe out of his sight.” She said this like it was obvious.

  “So he’s here, you’ve seen him?” Pip cocked her hip to the side and thought for a moment and then her eyes got wide like it had just come to her. I followed where her gaze went and suddenly my heart started pounding.

  “Don’t tell me.”

  “Sorry sister, but your Pinky promise pal is in there, with both of those vipers.” I closed my eyes and prayed for RJ to be alright. I could only hope that my time wasted out here hadn’t been the time needed for RJ to get hurt. I felt bad enough that I was the whole reason she was in this mess to begin with.

  Now I just needed to figure out a way to get her out safe and survive doing so.

  “Ok, new plan, forget my solo mission, it’s time to call for the Cavalry.” Pip stood to attention, gave me a salute and said,

  “You can count on me Tootie Sargent!” And then she ran off down the stairs wearing a pair of baby pink wedge shoes, with unicorn horns sticking up on the front surrounded with white fur. I was still shaking my head wondering how she walked in those things let alone ran in them.

  I waited till she was out of sight and then decided it was now or never. I opened the door, walked into the room and immediately heard voices. I crept through the room after a quick scan to make sure I was alone and walked over to the adjoining door where the voices were coming from. I pressed myself to the panelled door and waited to see if I could make out what was being said but was disappointed to find I couldn’t. I was also disheartened to find I couldn’t make out RJ’s voice and I could only hope and pray that she was still alive.

  Well there was only one way to find out.

  So very slowly I turned the handle, moving it by the tiniest amount so as not to be detected and then finally managed to unlatch the door enough to push it. I was just thankful nothing squeaked or creaked but by the time I opened the door and saw what was happening in the next room, nothing could have prepared me for what I saw…

  Violation.

  Chapter 68

  Fighting For A Homecoming

  Inside the room I watched in horror as Seth was chained to a metal bed and a naked Aurora was sat astride him riding his manhood with obvious pleasure. Seth looked strange and half drugged as he kept falling in and out of his demon side and shaking his head erratically. One thing was blindingly obvious and that was Aurora was taking him against his will.

  She was raping him.

  I wanted to shout blue murder to get her to stop and leave him alone but I knew I had to be careful, especially since she had a gun lay next to her on the bed.

  “STOP IT! LEAVE HIM ALONE!” RJ shouted from the corner of the room where she was tied up. She had seen me and the first thing I noticed was the cut bleeding on her lip and a nasty lump on her forehead as if she had been struck. Her makeup was streaming down her face in black lines like she had been crying angry tears.

  “Silence or I will shoot you and it might ruin the moment!” Aurora threatened picking up the gun and pointing it at her as she continued to ride the unwilling Seth. He must have had some knowledge of what was going on because he shouted up at her,

  “NO! Don’t hurt her or you will never get what you want!” I gritted my teeth and dug my nails into my palm to stop myself from racing in there and trying to save the day but I just couldn’t risk it. I didn’t know what exactly she wanted, although it should have been quite obvious considering the act. But then again, I doubted she went through all this just to get her rocks off with someone she had taken a fancy to. Either way I couldn’t risk RJ’s life, not again. So I had no other choice than to wait for others to get here.

  “Oh but I think I know what you want! Then so be it, have your little punk.” Aurora said after looking between the two both trying to save the other. Then she started laughing and threw her head back and by the time she looked down again she had morphed in to RJ. I sucked in a sharp breath which was masked by RJ’s gasp of shock.

  “No…no…you’re not her…you’re not…” Seth kept repeating to himself over and over and closing his eyes as tight as they would shut.

  “Look at me, it’s me…just open your eyes lover.” Aurora cooed in RJ’s voice and just as he was about to open his eyes RJ shouted,

  “IT’S NOT ME! IT’S A TRICK!” But this just ended with her finding the curtain she was tied next to wrapped around her, preventing her from speaking. I almost called out in fear she wouldn’t be able to breath but the material stopped just covering her mouth and leaving her free to breathe through her nose.

  “Now look at me and I will show you what you truly want.” Aurora said and it was messing with my head let alone what it must be doing to poor Seth. She rode him harder making him cry out and open his eyes. This was his first mistake as it was obvious he couldn’t hold back his desire for the fantasy. Oh yeah, he had it bad for my friend alright.

  The real RJ’s eyes were wide and tear filled making me want to run over there and comfort my friend but I was rendered helpless.

  “That’s it lover, I can feel how much you want me, how much you want this body.” She touched her pert little breasts and then ran her hands up into her pink tousled hair and Seth remained as his demon form this time.

  RJ looked even more shocked and I was surprised she hadn
’t passed out by now. Although I suppose this wasn’t anything compared to the battle of the dead she had witnessed. Ok so I could now see a long future of paying out some hefty psychiatric fees but let’s face it, it was the least I could do after this shit storm I had landed in her lap.

  I wanted to look away from the disgraceful act but when she put a vial of something blue to Seth’s lips I needed to know what she was doing. She dripped it into his mouth and he looked so lost and deep into the lies she was feeding him he didn’t even notice. Then she downed the rest of it, swallowed and eyes that weren’t her own rolled back up into a face that didn’t belong to her either.

  “Yes…make me yours, join with me, fill me…fill me!” Aurora shouted and Seth gripped on to the chains that held him pulling enough that they snapped. I thought he would take this moment to escape or at least do me a favour and snap her bitch neck but he was too far gone from this world. Whatever she had given him had made him truly believe it wasn’t anyone but RJ he was making love too. He flipped her over and hammered into her quickly finding his release.

  Aurora screamed and quickly transformed back to herself making Seth instantly realise his mistake. He flew off the bed backwards and shook his head over and over as if it was a nightmare he was trying to banish from his mind. He scrabbled over to RJ and pulled her huddled form to him making sure she was alright. The shackles still encased his wrists and the lengths of chain he had snapped still hung down from them.

  “I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry…”He started chanting as he held onto RJ as tight as he could fearful if he ever let her go. I looked back to the culprit and as soon as I knew that RJ was safe I made my move. She had just picked up her dress and was bending down when I ran in the room and grabbed the gun she had left on the bed.

  “What the…!” Aurora started to say but stopped when she saw it was me…that or a mad biker clown that had just sprung into the room and was now pointing a gun at her. Any other time and I would have laughed just thinking about what a sight I must have made.