Mother thought she had to play this to the max if it was going to work at all. "OF COURSE IT'S ME YOU IMBISEL!!!!!!!! NOW RELEASE ME AT ONCE!!!!!! She hoped that would do it and that he wouldn't turn around and fill them full of lead.
"But ….but……it's not possible." He was too stunned, the idiot, but Mother found this most enjoyable.
"Mother, you're having way too much fun." Alison protested and Mother ignored her.
"JACOB, YOU IDIOT, OF COURSE IT IS!!!!!!!! I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN WHAT YOU DID ALL THOSE YEARS AGO!!!!!! AND DON'T TELL ME YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN WHO REARANGED YOUR FACE!!!!!" Come on you lummox do the right thing.
He stood there in terror, he knew who had disfigured him and left him to die. A creature he never ever wanted to see again. So he had hidden for years, in time his fears had abated but now they were back with a vengeance and if he didn't do something soon he was going to pay either way. "Cut her loose NOW!!!!!!!!" he screamed. Good boy Mother thought good boy, you just might live through this.
Jacob's henchmen carefully helped Mother out of the net. All the while Jacob stared at her.
"You did the right thing Jacob." Mother said walking over to him, to her he was a giant. He towered above her and she couldn't believe he was cowering in fear of her. The feeling of total power over him was almost too much to bear.
Jacob accepted her now for who she was but his fear had not faded. This creature was a dangerous one, even though she now looked entirely different from when he last saw her. It was hard to believe she was the same creature but he had heard from others that Mother changed from time to time. But no one around here knew who he was, his name had been lost and he hadn't given it out. In fact his name now was Baluroo. His brain went to work, for her to be here she had to be on a mission. Was she looking for him? He doubted it for he was sure she would have come a long time ago. No this had to have been a chance meeting, one that he wished hadn't happened.
"Why are you here?" He said as he looked down at the strange yellow creature that now was Mother.
Looking up and staring at him she needed a cover story of why she was here. Looking for him was out, it was just too damn convenient and wouldn't fly, he'd be too suspicious. "I'm looking for a specimen of unknown origin." She wasn't about to tell him she was lost.
He nodded, it made sense to him. What he wanted now was her out of his territory.
The Emperors Space Station Orbiting Tarra.
The Emperor stared at the holo disk, she sighed heavily as she placed it into the player. A voice then sounded.
"THIS IS AN ENCODED MESSAGE FOR THE EMPERORS EYES ONLY. PLEASE PROVIDE A BLOOD SAMPLE."
A small tray slid out from the machine with a tiny pin on it. The Emperor placed her finger on it, a drop of blood flowed from the prick of her finger. The tray slid back in but the machine did nothing for a few seconds.
"THE SAMPLE IS VALID…PLEASE ENTER ROYAL SECURITY SEAL CODE"
The emperor typed in the code.
"CODE VALIDATED MESSAGE WILL BEGIN PLAY IN A FEW MOMENTS"
The emperor sat back and relaxed, she knew this wasn't going to be good news.
Levion Seniors Hospital: Early evening.
Sylvia, an older experienced hedgehog nightshift nurse, looked at the rounds chart and found that no one on the day shift had done the sleepers. It was the staff's term they gave the coma patients, since they had quite a few. Ever since they found that the patient's insurance covered the cost, it became feasible to keep them. It was a retirement home first but extra rooms were constructed when it was found that it would be cost effective to have them available. A very wise business decision, they required very little up keep, their beds had to be changed and they had to be cared for but it was far easier on them and they got few complaints. In fact they were now about to add on more rooms. Not many facilities offered the care they did. So it was on a recommendation by Dr. Kahn that Swallow was placed here and the fact that he knew the man who ran the clinic helped clinch the deal.
Sylvia Bronston had worked there for many years, seeing patients come and go. Swallow, she knew, was the youngest she had ever seen. Almost everyone there was a senior by far. She hated seeing someone so young struck down in life. It made her job a lot harder. So now that she had seen that no one had checked in it perturbed her; it was something she was going to have to tell the day supervisor about. She took the chart into another room where a lovely young equine was sorting boxes.
"Brittany has no one checked the sleepers today?"
Brittany had been on the covering shift so she knew a little bit of what had gone on in the afternoon. "I thought so, Debbie had to do the rounds today…..in fact." The equine moved around into another small room and Sylvia heard a door open and close. "She's still here, her clothes are still in her locker, I guess she hasn't reported back yet."
"That's odd, hmmm. I'm going to look for her ok?"
"Sure Sylvia, you know where I'll be."
"Ok." Sylvia didn't really like Brittany, she was too young and didn't care much about the job. All it was to her was a paycheck. It wasn't the attitude a nurse should have. Sylvia went up stairs; she could have taken the elevator but she felt that this was better for her. As she entered onto the floor housing the sleeping patients a foul smell assaulted her. It was like nothing she had smelled before and she had taken a whiff of many horrible things.
"Debb… it's Sylvia, you about?!!" She didn't get a reply and now she was worried. She traveled down the hall and the smell intensified as she walked. Finally she came to where the odor was the strongest, it was coming from the young fur's room. "Debb??" She said as she entered the room. A wave of nauseous scents assaulted her from all sides and what she saw made her mind buckle with horror! It didn't take but seconds before she was screaming.
End of Chapter 5
Oh it's always good for you to scream once and awhile…….right??????
"I scream, you scream, we all scream for… well it ain't ice cream that's for damned sure."