The Least Dangerous Game--Chapter Eleven

The Bernice Summerfield Internet Adventures
BIA#2: 'The Least Dangerous Game'
Chapter Eleven: "One of Those Days"
by Keith Fletcher

 Phu-Tan-La stood in the light, regarding first his rejuvenated body, then the faces around him. Then He began to laugh.

 "Yes!" he cried. "Now, finally, I will build the empire I have sought!"

 Benny and Gordy looked on, horrified, from the shadows.

 "Shit!" swore Benny. "Now we *are* too late."

 Gordy nodded. "I'm afraid you may be right, Miss Summerfield."

 Phu-Tan-La strode to where Abraham stood. He looked down at him, and looked into his eyes.

 "You are the one who has freed me?"

 Abraham shuddered from the other's eyes, they were like daggers on his retinas. He looked back in to them.

 "Yes, I am the one. It was I that have brought the dagger to this place. It was I that made the last sacrifice in your honour. I have brought you back to us! My Master!"

 He kneeled and kissed Phu-Tan-La's hand.

 "Are you totally loyal to me?" asked Phu-Tan-La.

 "Yes, my Lord!" said Abraham, a little confused.

 "Good. Then I have a little *job* for you..."

 

[Extract from the diary of Professor Bernice Summerfield]

 When people come back from the dead, it is usually a really bad dream, horror vid, or you are in deep shit. Well, guess where I am in this little chart. That's right. Just call me shithead.

 Anyway, I was standing in the shadows with Gordy, watching a mini god that is supposed to be dead unage, and reverse back to youth, around some twenty-odd people in black robes, and the fore-mentioned mini-god, Phu-Tan-La the Eighty-Third.

 "What are we going to do now?" asked Gordy.

 I had no idea. I watched Phu-Tan-La whisper into a man's ear. I heard something like "Pigs in the market go down to the bay, with something maxtrel, axe eight ment with pork and things."

 As I tried to make sense on what I heard, something bad happened..."

 [Extract ends]

 

"Ahh..." said Gordy.

 "Shit," swore Benny under her breath.

 "Ahh..." said Gordy.

 "Don't," said Benny.

 "Ahh... CHOO!" sneezed Gordy.

 (What they did not know was that the cult did not hear Gordy's sneeze.)

 "YOU BASTARD!!!!!!!!" shouted Benny.

 (The cult heard this.)

 Phu-Tan-La looked at them.

 "Capture them," he said, laconically.

 "Thanks a lot." said Benny to Gordy.

 

Later in their cell, Benny and Gordy were sitting down on some bunks when the door opened. The man that came in to the room shocked both of them. It was the person they least expected to see in the world.

 "Oh my god!" said Gordy.

 And he was right to.

 It was Irving Braxiatel.

 To be continued...

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