Defiance
Hell on Earth Book 4
Iain Rob Wright
Contents
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Part I
1. LUCAS
2. CALIGULA
3. TED
4. TED
5. DR KAMIYO
6. DR KAMIYO
7. TED
8. DR KAMIYO
9. DR KAMIYO
10. TED
11. DR KAMIYO
12. TED
13. DR KAMIYO
14. DR KAMIYO
15. CALIGULA
16. HANNAH
17. DR KAMIYO
18. HANNAH
19. TED
20. TED
Part II
21. DEMON
22. DR KAMIYO
23. TED
24. DR KAMIYO
25. TED
26. HANNAH
27. HANNAH
28. HANNAH
29. DR KAMIYO
30. CALIGULA
31. DR KAMIYO
32. TED
33. DR KAMIYO
34. HANNAH
35. TED
36. DR KAMIYO
37. DR KAMIYO
38. TED
39. DR KAMIYO
40. HANNAH
41. DR KAMIYO
42. TED
43. DR KAMIYO
Part III
44. CALIGULA
45. HANNAH
46. TED
47. DR KAMIYO
48. HANNAH
49. TED
50. DR KAMIYO
51. TED
52. HANNAH
53. NATHAN
54. TED
55. TED
56. VAMPS
57. TONY CROSS
58. DAMIEN BANKS
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“Today I choose life.”
— Kevyn Aucoin
“Be ashamed to die until you have achieved some victory for humanity.”
— Horace Mann
“We cling to what is gone. Is there anything in this life but grief?”
— Illyria, Angel (1999 TV Series), The WB
Part I
1
LUCAS
“Get ready,” said Lucas. “The Red Lord is about to grace us with his presence.” The Infernal Throne hissed and spat.
Heat filled the chamber, and a million screams erupted from the flames. Something massive emerged and started down the steps towards them. Something wicked.
“Holy shit!” said Vamps. “I’m gunna need a bigger sword.”
Daniel and Rick froze in place, staring up at the horror before them.
Vamps stood with Damien and Aymun, each of those men also frozen in shock.
Lucas stood alone.
The Red Lord was a giant, not in stature but in presence. Its form seemed to smother existence itself. Lucas recognised the beast immediately, the mystery of his enemy’s identity finally revealed to him.
The Red Lord was kin.
Lucas could barely breathe. “I-It can’t be.”
“What?” asked Rick, daring to glance back for a split-second. “What is it?”
Lucas shook his head. “The end of everything.”
The Red Lord grabbed Daniel while the fallen angel was still stunned. Perhaps he recognised the Red Lord’s true identity as well. The Red Lord broke him in his fist and allowed the angel’s crushed body to fall to the ground.
Lucas tore the air with his screams, inadvertently hurting his companions with the damaging frequency. The Red Lord was unaffected by the sonorous assault and marched towards his next victim—Aymun.
Lucas threw out a hand and sucked Aymun backwards out of danger, the air swirling around him and lifting him away. Once Aymun was beside him, Lucas grabbed the man’s skull and infused him with knowledge. “We can’t win this fight. Not here. I’m getting you all out of here. Find each other back on Earth and stay strong. Fight another day.”
Aymun was confused, but before the man had a chance to question, a gate appeared behind him and yanked him through it. He was gone in less than a second.Vamps gawped at Lucas, his gold fangs flashing. “What you doing, man? We came here to gank this bitch.”
“Not here. Just get through the gate and—Damn it!” Lucas leapt aside as the Red Lord tried to crush him with an almighty fist. The monster struck the ground and the whole of Hell trembled.
Damien appeared and gathered Lucas to his feet. “I never seen you scared before, boss.”
“It’s been a while since anything gave me cause.”
“Who is this geezer? Why won’t you fight?”
“Because, our enemy can’t be killed. Not here. Maybe not anywhere. We need to leave and regroup. I need time to think.”
The Red Lord cackled, an awful sound, but it was broken by the shrill voice of another. The weaselly politician, Windsor cowered before the terrifying beast and begged for his life. “I-I-I’m on your side,” he stammered. “I serve your man, Oscar Baruta. Please, I am not… I am not your enemy. Oh god.”
Lucas had to give the fella props for bravery. It took a lot to stand before the universe’s wickedest being and try to start a discourse. It was pointless of course, and Lucas winced as he awaited the inevitable outcome.
The Red Lord studied the tiny man before him and then blinked its many glistening black eyes.
Windsor’s spine spewed forth from his mouth and clattered on the ground. His formless body crumpled like a bedsheet.
Lucas sighed. “Not the first spineless politician I’ve met. Idiot.”
Vamps swung his flaming sword at the Red Lord, but the instant it struck the leathery flesh of its huge right leg, it exploded into ash. Vamps wheeled backwards, horrified. “She-it!”
“Get away,” said Lucas. “All of you get away. We must leave here.”
Rick stared down at Daniel’s broken body, but then looked up and shook his head. “We leave now and we’re back to square one.”
“We stay and we die. Through the gate. Now!”
Damien was the first to obey. He would never run from a fight, but he would also never disobey Lucas either. It appeared his obedience outweighed his pugnacity. Good.
Lucas threw out a spark that hit the Red Lord and delayed his approach. It gave him a chance to grab Rick and throw him through the gate.
That left just Lucas and Vamps. Vamps was retreating, no longer brave or courageous, but terrified and defenceless.“Get to me, lad. I’ll get your arse out this fire.”
Vamps leant forwards and then broke into a sprint. The Red Lord stomped after him.
“Run, lad!”
“I am, yo!”
The Red Lord kicked out and caught Vamps in the back, sending him flying.
Lucas threw out both arms and closed the gate he’d just opened, then reopened it ten-feet in the air, to catch Vamps.Before Vamps disappeared through the gate though, the Red Lord reached out and snatched him out of the air. But the massive beast could not stop himself quickly enough to avoid going into the gate itself. Both it and Vamps tumbled through together and disappeared.
Lucas found himself alone, standing there in silence, in the centre of the throne room that
