- NND --------------------------------------------------------- Visit my FTP site: ftp://ftp.asstr.org/pub/Authors/Roller/ <--click Click, or put the address into your browser. All my stories are there. --------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Roller Presents GIRL PATROL Chapter Twenty-One ÒMaster! TheyÕre beating on the door!Ó the ghoul yelled to Fat Arnold. He was already loading a Seismic Shotgun. It could stop a vampire at twenty paces, and take out anyone nearby. But against a whole city of vampires it was decidedly underpowered. ÒMake them stop!Ó Fat Arnold told his ghoul. The racket was deafening. He had been asleep when it started, lying in his big black coffin down in Vlad and EsmeldaÕs wine cellar, amidst priceless vintages that now nobody would drink. ÒThey wonÕt stop, master! TheyÕre yelling something about a machine! A- A time machine!Ó the ghoul told Fat Arnold. ÒItÕs the sun,Ó Fat Arnold muttered. ItÕs heat and light had suddenly increased. The whole day had been sweltering, and the night was getting worse, hour by hour. The sun was sick, very sick now, and like a patient on the edge of death it was wobbling between life and what lay beyond, in this case, a giant explosion. Somehow the denizens of Darkness City knew this now, and they knew Vlad and Esmelda werenÕt just away on vacation. Fat Arnold walked through the stone chamber that served as an anteroom to the front door. There was only one door in this tower, sensibly so, as Vlad and Esmelda had ruled through fear, and Fat Arnold knew of no other way, on this dead planet, to rule himself. ÒLeave off the door!Ó Fat Arnold yelled. But his voice couldnÕt be heard on the other side of the heavy door. Instead the chaos beyond began to resolve into a chant. ÒTime! Time! Time!Ó the vampires on the other side of the door cried. Nothing mattered anymore, not wealth, not even power, as Fat Arnold was quickly learning. All that mattered now was getting out of here, off this doomed planet and into the past. Some were leaving, amidst rumors, circulated since several days past, that wraith vampires beyond the Missup River were evacuating into the past. ÒFucking Esmelda!Ó Fat Arnold swore. He looked at his ghoul. Impulsively he asked the human, ÒWhy would they be taking the wraiths?Ó The ghoulÕs eyebrows raised. Fat Arnold had denied that there was a time machine, yet what was this he was saying now? Fat Arnold grimaced. Someone needed to know the truth, and who better than his conniving, back-stabbing little blood doll? ÒYes!Ó Fat Arnold told the ghoul in frustration, as the beating against the door increased. ÒThere is a time machine. Vlad and Esmelda built it. ThereÕs another machine in the desert--Ó he began, but the ghoulÕs face suddenly showed doubt. Lying was a way of life in Darkness City, was his master concocting something now in hopes of dispersing the riot? ÒThere really is!Ó Fat Arnold yelled at his ghoul. ÒBut itÕs not a time machine,Ó he admitted. ÒItÕs just an old machine. Have you found anything in the computer yet?Ó ÒNo, master,Ó the ghoul said. But there seemed to be deception in his face now, and suddenly Fat Arnold was turning his shotgun on the human. ÒTell me!Ó Fat Arnold cried. The ghoul cringed. ÒThere is, master! There is,Ó the ghoul said. ÒBut I was hoping that it might be worth something--Ó ÒWhat?! You were going to sell it?Ó Fat Arnold cried, meaning, of course, the information about time travel. ÒNo, master, never!Ó the ghoul said. ÒNot without making sure you got paid to!Ó ÒDamn bastard human!Ó Fat Arnold cried. He fired his shotgun. Vampires were much more powerful than humans and, being only human, his ghoul wasnÕt simply killed, he was practically incinerated. Fat Arnold growled when he saw the waste of good blood, splattered like haphazard wallpaper paste over the entire floor and back wall. Then he realized the knowledge was gone too, and his stomach sank. Now he would never get out of here. 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