Blood Corridor: Part 8

Previously on Blood Corridor. Roddrick has been putting his own blood into cans of Venom energy drink and passing it out to college students everywhere on Wayne States campus with help from his brother, a big dirty santa looking guy, Joe. Dr Albert King, inventor of the control potion and the ELOHIM, has been held captive but manages to escape with his new friends: Charlie, Chuk, Robert, Danny, and Gutterson. Roddrick has stolen Albert’s work in hope of turning himself into a god or so he says with the help of the ELOHIM. The ELOHIM is a invention of Albert’s that can turn a vampire into a god making his weaknesses no longer, but the ElOHIM is missing just one ingredient the blood from a recently deceased Vampire. Roddrick shows he has two weaknesses under his cocky smile; The yells from the Dean, and his love Anna. Anna is a mystery, no one knows her true path. She has escaped from Roddrick taking Marcus with her to what Albert believes is the Forest Arms apartments. Albert and the boys have no choice but to gain more allies for the forecoming fight so they head for the pike house. Over at the house James has murdered 3 cops and has everyone looking at him as he screams “zombies”. Brandi and Audrey give him the “what the fuck” look as Casey comes to tell Danny everything that is going on via cell phone. Inside the house are Richardson and Cam, both of which just shot another man out of the house, and Brian who was bit again some how.
People who are vampires: Charlie, Marcus, Jayme, Anna, and Roddrick
People infected with the Venom virus: Deandre, Justin, and many others
People definitely not infected: James, Cameron, Richardson and Casey
“So that’s it? That’s whats going on?” James asked
Albert was the only one standing up. Everyone else was sitting on a chair or a sofa in the social room of the Pike house. Most of their jaws had dropped from the recent news. Chuk was the first to stand up and speak.
“Uh yes I think I speak for everyone when I say you take entirely way too long to explain anything” he said in a joking kind of a way. He looked around and some agreed, some disagreed but gave an awkward laugh anyway because it was Chuk. “What time is it anyway” Chuk says as he streaches his back.
“It's just now turning 6” Richardson told him “yeah I'm with Chuk on this one. That could have taken like 5 seconds to say” he gives an awkward Richardson laugh “ I mean I left like we have been sitting here for a month right? Am I right guys? [He looks around with his hand up for a high five.] Guys?”
No one high fives him and he puts his hand down.
“well forget you guys”
“not now Richardson” Danny says
Danny sat on the sofa next to Casey who was wearing his black leather coat.
“Ok so what about the Zombies what happen to those?”
“Were you paying attention Danny?” Gutterson looks back at him. He was the only one sitting on the floor “there are no Zombies just vampires”
“Do we get to kill the Vampires?” danny asks
“well they aren’t really Vampires” Albert adds “They just crave blood and have slightly enhanced strength and the sun irrates them”
“so lets say I had a machete would that kill them”
“yes but lets hope it shouldn’t..”
Danny interrupts him “ hold on ill be right back” he kisses Casey and leaves the room
“oh..ok um well[disregarding Danny] Roddrick is going to come here first to look for Marcus and Anna…
“But Marcus isn’t here” Cameron says
“So what now. We just sit here and tell this Roddrick dude he isn’t here or what? Brandi asks
“uh well[ Albert looks around to find words] we should find some weapons….
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH SHIT SHIT SHIT FUCK
Everyone head turns quickly towards outside. James and Cameron are the first to the window.
“Do you see anything?” Robert asks
“no nothing nobody we know is out there right?” James said
“Oh My God Danny” Casey screams as she runs out of the room and out of the house.
“Well that’s that, their dead”
“Don’t say that” Audrey said as she hit him on the arm
"OW don’t hit me I'm just saying what is soon to be true.”
The rest of them head over to the window to see what has happened. Danny laid on the grass. Casey was next to him. Cameron knocked on the window to get their attetion but their attention was on something else. James turned to see what they where staring at. Jake's body which had taken a shotgun blast and plenty of FAMAS bullets started moving. Jake took in a deep breath as he moved towards Danny and Casey. He pushed himself up with his good arm. His body was bleeding from more than one noticeable hole. He took deep breaths trying to hold on to life as long as he could. He walked up to Danny
“Is Al….Albert here?” He asked him
“Who the Old man? Yeah he is in there” Danny says
Jake turns from him and walks toward the door. James turns back to Albert
“Looks like someone wants to speak to you” he says to Albert
The air get tense. There is a knock at the door
“What do we do we do?"
“Don’t answer it” Robert says
“lets shoot him” Richardson says as he grabs his shotgun “Yeah” Cam says as he grabs his FAMAS rifle
“Is anyone going to untie me” Brian says from the dinning room. Due to suspicions of turning into a Zombie or a Vampire or any monster that could eat him James conviced everyone to tie up Brian back to the chair
“No Brian, you have been bitten we have been over this we just cant take the chance” James says
A knock on the front door again.
“Fine ill speak to him. Stay back I don’t want any of you getting hurt.” [He sees Richardson’s eager face to kill] “ Son put the gun down you are gonna hurt somebody”
Albert goes to the Foyer and opens the door. “I am to guess you must be one of Roddrick’s pawns?”
Jack snaps his neck to the left. Blood dripped on the floor.Albert could smell the gun powder and burnt flesh.
“Yes” Jake said "Roddrick has trusted me with this mission"
“Well [Albert gave a short laugh] you obviously failed"
[Jake gives a short laugh of his own] "No no no Dr. King my mission is far from over"


Jake quickly pulls out a knife and stabs Albert in the chest. Albert falls on to Jake. His eyes widen more and more. Jake whispers in his ear “He knows Albert, Roddrick knows all”. Jake lets Albert fall to the floor. Richardson hears Albert’s body fall and comes to the foyer.
“oh Shit” Richardson says as he sees Albert. He looks up at Jake “shit” he fires his shotgun
BANG sending Jake through the door of the Pike House.
Danny looks at Jake, his eyes looked up at the sky motionless. “Dead” Danny says to Casey
“hold on I got to get something out of my car.”
Danny returns with a rusty looking machete.
“where did you get that from?” Casey asked him
“From my trunk I have always had it in there. You know in case of emergency or something?”
Casey rolls her eyes at him and walks towards the house she stops at the sight of Albert “oh my god”
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Marcus lied down on the bed. He snored so loudly that not a single bat had decided to rest in the room with him. A cold breeze came upon him. His body gave a shake and in retaliation to the breeze Marcus pulled the cover over his shoulder but by doing so exposed his bare feet to the cold. So Marcus rolled over in to the fetal position to gain as much warmth as he could but to his surprise he was still cold. He didn’t want to open his eyes. He felt hung over. His head ached as if his skull was a pinball machine and his brain was the pinball. The breeze came again and he shivered. Marcus decided to admit he was defeated but not after one last attempt his ace in the hole.
“JAYME!” he shouted “Jayme can you close the window?”
There was no reponse
“Charlie!” he shouted again “Charlie can you close the window?”
Still there was no response. So Marcus laid there. Stubborn to move. He laid in bed for 20 more minutes before he opened his eyes.
Marcus smacked his lips and gave a big old yawn under the cover. His head still hurt. He was trying to add up what had happened but his head hurt anytime he tried to think. He decided he would count to three then he would open his eyes.1.….2.…..3.…Go. Marcus opened his eyes. His whole body was covered, head included so Marcus couldn’t see much but what he did see was a whole in the cover.
“what the….” he said as touched the whole. The edges were hard and jagged as if it was burnt. ‘Did someone burn my cover’ he thought “Damn it Charlie” he cursed
Marcus grabbed one end of the cover and flips the it off of his body. The initial shock that he felt was first ‘cold as hell’ then there was ‘wait where the hell am I’ followed by ‘Oh My God, I’m naked”
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“Is he dead?” Audrey asked
“Oh yeah he’s dead” Danny says as he walks in the house
“Not Jake the old dude” James says
“Shut up don’t call him old and no he is not dead” Brandi sat next to Albert putting pressure on his wound “well is anyone going to call the cops or what?” She shouted
Eyes jumped from one person to the other and then stayed on James who kept shaking his head “no cops” he insisted people actually listen to him this time. Brandi gave a small sound like a growl and went back to help Albert.
As Brandi held a rush T shirt to Albert’s wound Albert put his hand on Brandi.
“He knows” he said to Brandi. His eyes looked deep into Brandi’s he was scared but not for him. ‘Roddrick knows’ he thought . Ideas rushed in his head. He stood up. With the knife still in his chest, he spoke to Brandi. “You should..you should help me to..to some where I can lie down”
Brandi agreed and walked him over to a couch with the help of Audrey. He lied down on the coach. Everything in his body became ,he felt cold. He smiled up at Brandi said ”oh Anna” and closed his eyes.
Brandi watched as the last exhale that Albert took flew out of his mouth. A tear fell down his face and hers. The social room went quiet.
“Is he dead now?” Chuk
“YES HE IS FUCKIN’ DEAD WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE” Brandi screamed.
As she did a bat flew out of fireplace in the social room. People screamed and shouted as Cam tried to hit it with the back of his rifle but he missed horribly . The bat did 2 laps around the room and ended its run by flying out of the front door, but by that time everyone had already left the social room
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Marcus looked around in the room. It was a normal sized apartment bedroom. There was a dresser, a desk, a lamp with an ultraviolet light, and a TV. In fact the only weird thing about the bedroom was the fact that everything was burnt. Burnt as if a fire(a very big fire) had happened here. Marcus’s mind raced. He remember an apartment fire at Forest Arms not to long ago.
“I’m sorry Marcus isn’t really available right now"
Marcus jumped at the sound of someone else’s voice.
It sounded like a woman.
"Ok ill talk to you later James"
A very young woman. He looked down. He was still naked. He grabbed the half burnt cover and covered up his business if you know what I mean. He snuck around to get a better look.
“I Want your love and I want your revenge” she sings
“You and me could write a bad romance”
Marcus pokes his head out from the corner into the kitchen. He sees Anna dancing and cooking badly. She was cooking on a battery operated George Forman grill. She continued to dance and sing as she cracked 2 more eggs on the grill. As she danced a couple of bats circled above her head as if they were dancing too. Marcus looked closer at Anna. She went over to the sink and pulled out a hand. She then pulled out a knife and chopped off a finger letting the blood fall on the eggs.
“aw” Marcus moans and bites his lip. “ ow” he puts his hand on his teeth and then it all came to him fast “ Fuck” he said “ I forgot. I’m a Vampire.”
“Oh babe you’re up, the eggs are almost done. Bacon?”
“eh,sure” Marcus said as he went over to Anna and grabbed a plate. The plate had ash on it so Marcus went over to the sink to wash it off but when he tried to turn the sink on nothing happen.
“oh um I think something is wrong with your water”
Anna gave a cute laugh “clearly silly.” She says playfully “this apartment isn’t actually quite up to code; maybe I should go complain to the landlord.” She gives another laugh as she watches the eggs. There was an awkward silence as Marcus chews on a piece of bacon. He sat the plate down on the dinner table so he could eat comfortable. He had one hand on his bacon and other hand on the cover trying not to expose himself anymore then he already has but this brought up a very good question.
“Why am I naked?” “you can have a seat” they said at the same time.
Marcus tried to put everything together so he though it best to sit down and he did. He pull out the chair nearest him and sat.
“Oh no not that one..” but before Anna could stop him Marcus fell flat on the floor. Exposing himself to Anna’s view she smiled and turned back. The bat around her flew down and helped cover Marcus back up. He grabbed the table and hoisted himself back up.
“you should try that one” she pointed to a chair at the end. It was an arm chair. Nothing that would normally be at a dining table, in fact it was much shorter then the table. If he would sit down he would look like a midget or a child. Marcus walked over to it and put his hand on the cushion.
“It should be alright. While you were sleeping I put a pillow and a piece of plywood in there so it should be good.”
Marcus still with her words tested the chair several times before sitting.
It was quiet again except for the sounds of Marcus chewing his bacon and Anna humming “bad romance” and the bat’s wings flickering as they moved from a different place in the ceiling. Marcus finally builds up the courage to speak.
“why…why am I here? Am I dead?”
“No, no why would you think that? No Marcus you are very much alive”
“how did you know my name?”
“it said so on your one card”
“you went through my wallet”
“I’m sorry I just wanted to learn as much as I could about my new boyfriend”
It was at this moment that Marcus choked a little on his bacon
“Boyfriend?”
“Yes” she said as she turned around. She stared directly into his eyes “that’s not a problem with you is it.”
Marcus felt a warm feeling in his gut. But it wasn’t new love for Anna, he was hungry “Yes that’s a Problem!”
Anna just smiled and turned back "Great the eggs are done”
She made herself a plate and sat kiddy corner to Marcus at the table. She smiled at him as Marcus returned to her a look half way between disgust and confusion.
“Im..I’m sorry im not really understanding. Why…why do you think I’m your boyfriend”
“Wow you are prefect.” she stops talking so she can chew her food “I have gone my whole life with men doing anything to be in my life and you look at me and you want to get out. [she laughs] I love it so much. You have to be mine”
Marcus shakes his head “no. no. no why do you think I don’t have an option in this”
Anna stands up “look marcus” She stands up.
“What am I looking at?”
As soon as he said this statement he notice what an attentive girl Anna was. She was creepy, but hot. Her jeans were tight, very tight the kind of tight jeans that made you think 'wow thoses are tight'.
“Are you not attracted to me?”
“I am but”
“Are you not aware that you are a vampire”
“I’m still dealing with that”
“And are you aware that I always get what I want”
“um no I wasn’t actually”
Anna sighs and turns away “maybe I should have let you die like your friends"
“My friends? Oh shit Jayme and Charlie!”
He followed Anna into the living room. It was in worse shape than any of the other rooms. It was so bad you could see most of the floor boards. Anna drifted past acting upset.
“where are my friends?” He said while he carefully walked over the planks.
“With Roddrick. don’t you remember. Wow he must have hit you hard.”
At the sound of ‘Roddrick’s name’ Marcus remembers the fight. He shakes his head. “so their…their dead?”
Anna walked over to a mirror. She doesn't see anything but she pretends too. “or seriously injured. Roddrick often has a grudge against other Vampires”
She puts on make up. A bat flies over and grabs some eye liner and puts it in her hand
“so then take me to them” Marcus demanded
“No. I’m not going anywhere near Roddrick and now that Albert’s dead I have no reason to be anywhere near here”
“Who’s Albert?” his tone had more anger in it. “ look you are going to give me my clothes and tell me how to get out of here”
“or what?” she asks not amused by his threat
“or ill…”[CRACK] Marcus stopped watching his step; the floorboard beneath him cracked and split.
{Crack} Marcus falls fortunately for him he managed to grab a hold of the floorboard before he fell all the way thru. Anna laughed. The bats squeaked to their delight. Anna walked over to Marcus.
“Marcus. Vampires are very rare. You go out in the world by yourself and you’ll be hunted and dead before sunrise. Now I have already saved your life once. I could have let you die but I didn’t. I’m a simple girl with simple needs. I always have a man and if Albert’s dead I’m single and I don’t like that ok?.[ she steps on his right hand. Marcus yelps in pain] now I can let you fall or [she puts her hand over by his left hand] you can agree to be my boyfriend in which you will have to protect me from my horrible ex”
Marcus looked down. The floor beneath him seemed even weaker than the one he was on. If he fell he could fall 3 maybe 4 stories down. It didn’t look like he had much of a choice. He nodded and grabbed her hand. “Fine then but we are going to Matthaei you hear me?”
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“Alright this is all the weapons I could find in the..[Zach sees the old man] woah what happened to him”
“Jake shanked him” Chuk said with no remorse. “I’ll be back I'm a little parched”
Chuk walks to the back of the house towards the kitchen. When he enters he sees Charlie eating a piece of chicken like an animal.
Chuk laughs “why don’t go easy on that chicken you can get more of the flavor.”
“I can’t help it. I’ve like eaten everything in this kitchen and im still hungry.
“Right” Chuk says sarcastically as he walks over to the fridge “well I hope you didn’t drink all of the Venom…nope” Chuk grabs a can and pops it open
“Hey aren’t you not suppose to drink thoses?”Charlie asks”
“hasn’t affected me yet” Chuk says as he chugs the Venom down
“so this is all you could find in the house?” Gutterson said as he looks at the pile of junk Zach dropped on the floor.
“ yeah this is all I could find in the attic. I didn’t check the basement though.”
“well why not? I bet there is some shit down there” Cameron said
“I don’t know people started screaming so I just came down here and now I'm glad because the old dude is dead”
“Manners please” Brandi insisted
“ok I don’t know why I thought you guys would have a big ass sword or something”
“We don’t” all the men say together
“I mean no we don’t have any swords” Richardson says trying to be convincing. He wasn’t
“well what can we do with this stuff?” Robert asked
“well here's what I think. We all should take one weapon and ill go upstairs with someone else’s help and bring down hockey helmets for every one.”
“ok…I’m calling the cops” Casey says
“No Casey don’t. I just killed three cops. What do you think they are going to do to me?” James asks
“Put you in jail, James what else would they do”
“Kill me, bite me, Rape me. .. Sorry my history on Vampires isn’t up to par.” James said
“Well I think you should call them Casey and Zach you should still get the helmets.” Brandi told them
“ok well I’m going to need some help”
“I’ll go with you” Danny said “yeah ill come to” said Cameron
Casey pulls out her phone and dials 313-577-2222 but the busy tone comes through
“It's busy” she says.
“Well call 911 then” Brandi said
“Their busy too” Casey said
James paces back in forth. He wasn’t going to jail. He didn’t have the body type. His mind drifted off to the image of him being in prison with big sweaty ugly men trying to…
[Bang]
“OW OH OH”
“what the fuck was that?” everyone asked
James jumped up from his seat. Patted himself down. There was a bullet hole in the couch.
“sorry I just sat on my gun and almost shot myself. I’m good though…I’m good”
He had the nervous shakes. His mind kept wondering if Michigan had the death plenty. He couldn’t remember and cursed himself for never looking it up.
5 mins later...Everyone had picked a weapon besides Richardson, James, Cameron, Danny and Brian (of course because he was tied to the chair)
Audrey choose the Wok pan.
Casey chose the French chef knife from Cutco but she also had two pocket knives with her too.
Gutterson and Brandi both went with hockey sticks.
Robert went for the stripper pole.
Chuk went for the hockey gloves because ‘nothing is more dangerous than the Chuk!’ as he told everybody
Zach went for his baseball bat before he came back downstairs.
And Charlie didn’t get one because he was still in the kitchen eating.
Zach, Cameron and Danny came downstairs with 8 hockey helmets, a baseball bat, a little under a fifth of Canada house.
“anybody ever get that feeling of Déjà vu?" Danny asked
“what’s the booze for? I don’t think we are in the mood to drink” Audrey said
“I could use some” Casey said as she chugged a good portion of the booze.
“yeah pass some here would you?” James asked. He took a swig “so now what? We just wait for this Rafiki dude”
“It's Roddrick and he’s a dick head” Charlie said “he fucking jumped Marcus, Jayme and me and he tried to hurt my girl”
“Your girl? Who are you dating now” Cameron asked
“My girl you know. Well you might not know her but she got blonde hair big boobs…”
“Charlie!” Brandi and Audrey say together
“I’m sorry, no offense but she is hot. Her name is Anna and I'm going to marry her…”
“Anna..Anna...hey didn’t the Doc say something about an Anna?”
“Yeah he mentioned her a lot. Said something about her being with Marcus”
“Where at?” James asked him
“Uhhh Forest Arms, but no one lives there it was like engulfed in flames like 2 years ago.”
“Alright, alright Marcus is a lost cause and I don’t even know this Anna chick so fuck ‘em [Charlie growled at him] we should look after ourselves especially seeing that it’s [he looks at his phone] 6:26 and we are having people over at…”
“wait you are still having a party?” Casey asked
“I think you should cancel due to the circumstances” Brandi said
“Ok well this happens to be our biggest rush party and I’m not going to let a couple of dead cops or a dead old guy stand in the way of the party. Huh? Who’s with me?” Zach preached
No one said anything. Zach put his hand up and waited for support. Music started playing downstairs in the basement.
“well somebody is with me”
“Zach who’s in the basement” Danny asked
“I don’t know? It sounds like Justin’s DJ equipment though.”
“It would be down stairs for the party” Cameron said
“Has anyone seen Justin?” Zach asked. Everyone shook there heads.
“Well he could be one of the bad guys so…” Audrey says
“So one of us should go find out” Gutterson adds
The music got louder, as it does everyone turns to James
“Why is everyone looking at me?” James said but he knew why
“Well if it is Justin down there I think you should go down there” Robert pointed out
“Yeah I think so too” Brian said from the back of the room
“Why me?” James stated again hoping for a way out
“Well aren’t you guys like best friends or something you guys were like roommates forever” Brandi said
“So that doesn’t mean I want to die”
“Ok then lets vote. Who thinks James should go downstairs” Zach said with a smile. Everyone besides James put their hands up. Even Brian flicked his hand up.
“Sorry man but you have a gun” Cameron said
“That’s bullshit you know that’s some bullshit. Come on Cam, I’ve had nightmares about dying by myself."