Chapter 30 Angel Blood

It was now nighttime, Casity and Leroy were sitting in front of each other inside the Sheriff's office at Alabtown, they tried to piece it all together. "So, this guy came to the town with the Angel Blood and began to make Slabtown his cult, then the Angel Blood was stolen, and the cult town tried to get it back by attacking Alabtown." Casity nodded. "That's the gist of it." Mark and the Sheriff looked confused. "That sounds weird, there's clearly a bunch of pieces we are missing to this puzzle." Leroy nodded. "As much as I don't want to admit this, I think that I and Casity should return back to Slabtown to get more information from other people, perhaps stay the night." Casity looked concerned. "I don't know if I could ever go back in that town, it's creepy and I feel like they are gonna do something like sacrificing us to their ritual or something." Mark chuckled. "That's religions in a nutshell." Leroy and Casity looked at Mark triggered. "What do you mean 'religion in a nutshell?'" Mark explained. "It's all the same with this stupid belief where they think there is a god or something who wants a sacrifice, or wants you to follow a certain rule, or just exists in general." Leroy got up while staring at Mark. "You have no right to judge what someone believes in or not." Mark looked unfazed by this. "Kid, if you live as long as I have, you'll see that it's useless to have beliefs like that in a world wherein in order to survive monsters, you need to become a monster yourself." Leroy didn't respond, he just continued what he was saying to Casity without acknowledging what he said. "Well, I think we need more information, don't you agree?" Casity thought about it and nodded. "Fine, we'll go again." Leroy got up and walked toward the exit. "I'll be waiting for you Casity." Leroy went outside, Casity got up. "So, you start to warm up to him?" Mark asked, she didn't respond, she just walked out. After the kids left, the Sheriff looked at Mark. "What made you hate religion so much?" Mark didn't answer at first as if he looked bothered by that question, he then spoke. "Let's just say that when I was a kid, I lived a life many would consider being hell, it got so bad to the point where I accepted that God was dead and that you were alone." This shocked the Sheriff, but he decided that he wouldn't try and sway Mark's beliefs. "But, there were others that you could count on." The Sheriff wondered who Mark was referring to, little did he know it was Sam.

Leroy and Casity began to walk out of Alabtown, Casity had something on her mind and it took a while to finally speak out. "So, how are you affiliated with Gabe?" Leroy turned to her looking disappointed. "You don't need to make small talk." This made Casity angry. "I was just curious." Leroy then decided to speak up. "Fine, if you must know he is my comrade student of Master Potato." Casity was confused. "If I'm correct, Gabe was taken under Mark's wing because of his bounty, right?" Leroy nodded. "Master owed the First Sheriff of Watersville a favor many years ago, and Master decided to uphold that favor." Casity nodded. "So, do you know why Gabe has that bounty?" Leroy looked upset. "No, not even Gabe does." Casity thought about it. "Does Mark know?" Leroy answered. "From what I can tell he does, but he keeps it from Gabe because it is 'for his safety'." Casity nodded. "Do you care about Gabe?" Leroy smiled. "When I first met him I didn't, I thought he was an obstacle since Master taught him first and I believed that he would favor him since he is closer." Casity listened as Leroy kept explaining. "But, over time I realized that it wasn't the case, I also realized that Gabriel did in fact care about me as a comrade. In return, I decided to care about him, risking life and limb for him." Leroy pulled up his sleeve to reveal the burn scar on his entire arm, shocking Casity. "I did that by risking myself for Gabriel's sake." Casity then looked up at Leroy and smiled. "You must really care about your friend." Instead of Leroy deciding to brush that aside and look tough, he smiled and took pride in that statement. "I guess I do, and I'm proud of that." The two smiled at each other and kept walking. "Ya know." Leroy began to start a conversation that grabbed the attention of Casity. "We may not have a lot in common, in fact, I think we are polar opposite, Ice and Fire, different beliefs, different feelings on Mark, but I know we have one thing in common." Casity looked confused. "What's that?" Leroy answered. "We both deeply care for Gabe, just like Mark said." Casity thought about it and agreed. "Yeah, I guess you're right." Leroy also smiled, he then stopped, along with Casity, and held out his hand. "We may have our differences, but I think we should try to make an effort to become friends." Casity looked at his hand, confused. "Friends?" Leroy asked. "Friends." Casity smiled and they shook. "Alright then, let's continue the mission and head into Slabtown-" As soon as they got to the entrance, a crowd of people was waiting there with what looked to be guns and other weapons. "Hello there, visitors." The Sheriff of Slabtown said with a devious smile.

"What do you want?" Leroy asked as he looked ready for a fight. "We just want order to be restored, that is all." The Sheriff said. "Have you ever heard that you shouldn't force your beliefs on someone else?" The town began to laugh. "That's funny, because the government forces its power on the public a lot, so what makes us any different? We're just doing what they are doing." Leroy analyzed the situation, the best thing to do would be to retreat, head back to town, get Mark, and leave. "Now, come along with us kid so we could use you to get the Angel Blood back." Leroy smiled. "Yeah right, you crazy cultists and your stupid beliefs won't affect me." He then shot a blast of hell flames at the crowd, making them get back and fear Leroy. "I will burn you if you get close to me, unlike my father, I won't kill without a reason." The Sheriff looked angry. "FIRE ALL WEAPONS, HE'S A WITCHCRAFTER!" They began to fire their guns at Leroy and Casity. "Now Casity!" She nodded. "ON IT!" She then made an ice wall in front of them that blocked all the bullets and blocked their path. "Now we need to find a way out of here, but we need to think before the wall melts." They began thinking when all of a sudden the two heard someone try to get their attention. "Hey, come here, quick." It was Jeff inside a house behind the ice wall, the two decided to go to Jeff since he didn't appear to be with the cult. They ran to his house and Jeff locked the door. "Thanks for saving Jeff," Leroy said. "No problem." He smiled and two smiled with him. Just then, Casity noticed that the floor appeared to be made of metal. "What's wrong with the floor Jeff?" Casity asked, Jeff, answered. "It's just used to keep people from tunneling through the floor." Leroy began to realize the floor was made of that special medal used for witchcraft users. "Smart that it's made of Heavanium." Jeff nodded. "Alright, you two stay here tonight, I'll calm things down with the town in the morning and you best get out of town." The two nodded.

Meanwhile, that night, Casity and Leroy had been uncomfortably sleeping in bed next to each other. They were both blushing and wide awake as they heard Jeff snore while sleeping on the metal floor. "WHY IS HE SLEEPING ON THE METAL FLOOR!? DOESN'T THAT HURT HIM!?" Leroy whispered. "SHHHH!" Casity shushed him and Leroy listened, he then turned to his side and looked at the wall, only to notice a circle carved into the wood. "Hey, Casity, look at that wall." He whispered, Casity then looked at the wall and also noticed the hole. They decided to get out of bed quietly and walk toward the circle, trying not to wake Jeff up. "What is it?" Leroy asked. "It must be something he carved for his memories, maybe it means something to him." Casity said. Leroy began to feel around the circle, very curious about it, only for him to accidentally push the circle. "NOW YOU'VE DONE IT!" Casity whispered angry. She proceeded to slam Leroy in the head, but after hitting, they realized that the wall began to shake. "HE MIGHT WAKE UP!" They were freaking out, but he stayed asleep as the wall shook, eventually opening a secret passageway. "What the hell?" Leroy and Casity were confused. The passageway appeared to lead to a stone hallway with torches, the two looked at eachother with fear. Casity frowned. "I think we should go back to bed and act like we never saw this." This confused Leroy. "Why would we do that? Clearly Jeff isn't who he says he is." Casity looked afraid. "Listen, I know this sounds stupid Casity, but I think we should go down here." Casity still looked afraid. "Do we really do that?" Leroy nodded. "Plus, if it ends badly, then we could just get out, we're two very capable fighters who were trained by the best, right?" Casity nodded with a frown. They began to walk down the hallway with torches, it had been very creepy looking, the stones looked to be very old, the torches looked to be from castle times in story books. "Where do you think it leads?" Leroy looked unsure. "I don't know." Casity looked nervous. "Just keep your guard up, if we lose it at any time, that makes us vulnerable." Casity nodded, she made ice boxing gloves, and Leroy made his fists into flames. Eventually the two came across a dark brown door that looked to be straight out of a horror movie. "Do we go in?" Casity asked, Leroy also looked hesitant. "The question is, are you prepared to go in?" Leroy turned to her and saw she didn't look sure at all. "Listen, you were part of Billy the Kid's crew, if there's anyone in the world who is brave enough to endure this, it's you." She nodded reluctantly, that comment boosted her confidence a bit more. "Alright, let's do it!" Leroy nodded, he then grabbed the knob and slowly tuned it, making Casity and Leroy sweat. After fully opening it, they realized that the room had been dark inside. "Do you have a light?" Casity asked, Leroy then proceeded to make his hand light fire. "Thank you." She said to Leroy, only to turn to what was in the room and scream in complete terror. As soon as Leroy saw what she saw, he also screamed in terror. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The two were frozen in terror with what was currently in front of them, they had never seen something so gruesome and terrifying as this. As it turns out, the room had been filled with what looked to be fresh bloody corpses, body parts, and possibly people who were trapped there. "WHY ARE THERE BODIES EVERYWHERE!?" Casity asked. "I don't know!" Leroy said, equally terrified. What creeped them both out was the fact that the bodies looked mutilated, cut open, and rotting. They then noticed what looked to be a cauldron of a red liquid that didn't look purified. The red liquid looked to have small pieces of black particles inside, not looking healthy. "What is that stuff?" Leroy asked while looking scared and confused, Casity then noticed a desk near the bodies and the cauldron with a book on it. Casity hesitantly avoided the bodies and went over to the book, she then began to read it. The book had looked to be a notebook about a substance made with chemistry, Casity then saw the experiment name and was shocked. "LEROY!" Leory turned to her in fear as he knew what she saw had been horrifying. "HE'S TRYING TO MAKE ANGEL BLOOD FROM DEAD BODIES!" This freaked Leroy out. "WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE NOW!" Casity agreed and they both turned to the exit and began running, only for Jeff waiting there for them. "Hello there, whatcha doin here?" Leroy and Casity immediately put their guards up, Leroy made his hands set on fire, and Sark made her fists into boxing gloves of ice. "Why are ya getting ready to attack me? I'm a friend aren't I?" Leroy and Casity looked horrified. "A friend huh!? I'm pretty sure a friend wouldn't mutilate a bunch of innocent people!" Jeff then gave a devious smile. "I'd like to think of it as a way of restoring the earth in the hands of the true rulers, the Titans." Leroy and Casity were not surprised that Jeff was part of the cult. "So what, you're gonna blissfully follow Titan and his lies? Like a dumb guard who listens to the villian of the story?" Jeff began to laugh maniacally, almost like a psychopath would, but worse. "What's so funny?" Leory asked, Jeff then looked straight into their eyes with a devious smile. "The thing is, I'm not one of the followers." Leroy and Casity were confused at first, but then they realised what he meant almost immediately. "I am Titan." Those words shocked them.

Leroy and Casity were frozen in fear, just then on instinct, Leroy shot a blast of his flames at Jeff who backed up into the hallway to avoid them. Leroy kept shooting with an angry face, not caring if he hit him or not. The two kept walking down the hallway with Leroy shooting the fire, until they reached upstairs again, but Leroy and Casity didn't leave the basement, Jeff stood in the doorway, too afraid to come down. "Don't take another step closer or I will burn you!" Jeff began laughing, all of a sudden, he put on his black cloak and hid his face. He then walked away from the doorway for a while, leaving the two down the stairs, wondering what his plan was. "We need to find a way out, someway that involves us not losing our abilities and getting out." Casity and Leroy looked around, they then decided that he may be gone and the best course of action would be to book it. "So, we're gonna go for it, are you ready?" He asked Casity, she nodded. "3, 2, 1, GO!" Then booked it and ran for the door, it appeared as if Jeff hadn't been anywhere near, just then. When the two opened the front door, only to see the town waiting for them with Jeff in front of them with a devious smile. "Hello Children." He said with a devious smile.

Meanwhile in Alabtown, Mark had been laying in front of the safe with the Sheriff, the two had been talking. "So then, the kid who I said was named Gabe clapped his hands and made one of them have electricity surge around it, then he ran up to Billy the Kid and screamed 'I WILL BEAT YOU VILLIAN!'" The Sheriff looked amazed. "WOAH! So you're telling me that your very own student beat one of the greatest outlaws that ever lived?" Mark chuckled. "Basically I am." He was bragging clearly, but he still was proud of Gabe. "Alright, now I'll tell you about my other student that you met, his name is Leroy." The Sheriff looked engaged, just then, the two heard screams coming from outside. "Let's go." The Sheriff said. "Right." Mark followed. The two were shocked with what they were witnessing. A crowd of people who were holding torches had been walking through the middle of Alabtown, it turns out they were the people from Slabtown, with Jeff in the front hiding under his cloak. Mark and the Sheriff were terrified and nervous as the people walked, they then stopped when Jeff held out a sign. "People of Alabtown, as you may or may not know, I am the last Titan on earth." Mark and the Sheriff were surprised. 'Should I got for it then, there may be a big crowd, but I think I could take this guy based on his looks.' Mark decided to ultimately listen to what he had to say first before he tried anything, as he should strategize. "Regardless of my origins, I seek one thing from you and that is all." The Sheriff and Mark knew exactly what it was. "The Red Elixir that your town's first sheriff stole from us many years ago." The Sheriff angrily stepped forward. "What makes you think I'd even consider given this to ya? A bunch of crazy lowlives!" Jeff smiled. "Because, I have something you want, or should I say, your hired guard wants." Mark was confused, Jeff snapped his fingers and 2 strong men in the crowd escorted Casity and Leroy. Both of them had their hands behind their back and appeared to be in handcuffs made of Heavanium, and they also were gagged by a cloth. Mark was shocked and surprised to see them both captured. "MMMMMM! MMMMMM!" They both moaned with the gags in their mouths. "I am willing to set them free if you give me the Elixir, if not then I will use them in my experiments to make the Elixir." Jeff said with a devious smile. The Sheriff looked conflicted, he then decided to speak. "No!" Mark said, cutting off the Sheriff, shocking Casity and Leroy. 'Good, he's bluffing because he doesn't believe that they will kill us, also Titan wont get the Elixir.' Meanwhile, Casity looked terrified and did actually believe that Mark was serious. "You wish for me to kill them?" He asked. "What are ya doin Mark? They're your students, remember?" Mark looked as if he didn't care. "I believe that death is a better solution then letting a psycho like you get your hands on something as powerful and dangerous as Angel Blood." That statement made Leroy think otherwise. "Very well." Jeff then took out his knife he was throwing up earlier and put it up against Casity's neck, she was now sweating and terrified. "MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!" Casity began crying and making scared moans with the gag as the knife got closer to her neck. Mark tried to restrain himself, but he couldn't. "FINE! FINE!" Jeff stopped. "I was bluffing, I'll give you the Angel Blood." Jeff put his knife back. "Very good." Mark turned to the Sheriff. "As long as he is alright with it." The Sheriff looked defeated and depressed, his father's wish was now gone. "Fine, do what you want." The Sheriff sat down and began to take a smoke out and huff it.

Mark was holding the Angel Blood out. "Open the top and turn it to me, it is said that real Angel Blood is pure and has no other color inside of it." Mark listened and opened the top, only to reveal it as the real one. "Good, now give it here and I will give you the kids." Leroy looked angry and Casity looked scared. Mark looked at them with a face that told them, 'I'm sorry.' He handed him the Angel Blood, and Jeff threw Leroy and Casity at Mark. "YES! YES! YES! NOW WE COULD COMPLETE THE CEREMONY!" The crowd cheered. Meanwhile, Mark had been hugging the two kids, he took off their gags and began to remove the cuffs with a lock pick he had. "Are you guys alright?" Casity nodded in fear, meanwhile Leroy looked angry. As soon as Leroy was uncuffed, he punched Mark in the face. "And I thought you were a strong willed master, it turns out that you are weak." Casity then got angry and also punched Leroy. "YOU WOULD RATHER ME DIE THEN HAVE HIM DRINK IT!?" Leroy turned to her with an angry face, impling he meant what he said. "I NEVER SHOULD HAVE BECOME FRIENDS WITH YOU! HEARTLESS ASSHOLE!" Leroy's face told her he didn't care, when inside he truly did care. The crowd meanwhile cheered. "ALABTOWN CITIZENS AND SLABTOWN CITIZENS, A NEW GOD IS ABOUT TO ENTER THIS WORLD!" The crowd kept cheering. Jeff then took off the top and began to drink the Angel Blood, making Mark, Casity, and Leroy all frustrated that they lost. After drinking it the crowd cheered again and Jeff kept smiling, only to start choking and collapse. He continued to choke while on the floor, until it appeared as if he lost consciousness. Everyone looked surprised, the crowd, the citizens watching from their homes, the bounty hunting group, and even the Sheriff. "That stuff must have been really old, it must not work anymore!" Mark said as he cheered. "Guys he's dead!" The folk of Alabtown and the bounty hunters all cheered as the Slabtown people weeped.

The Sheriff and many other people with weapons all told the people of Slabtown to leave and never come back, which they did leave. Mark, Leroy, and Casity all had their stuff packed. "Hey, old man? You don't have to pay us for this one, this job was a bust anyways." The Sheriff looked angry. "I was never going to pay you to begin with." Mark was confused. "Didn't we win?" The Sheriff got up and looked at Mark angrily. "Yeah, we did. We went against my father's dying wish and now we hate the Slabtown people even more, thanks to you." Mark decided that the best thing would be to just leave, which is exactly what he did. "Let's go guys." Leroy looked frustrated. "Whatever." Casity on the other hand looked sympathetic. "I'm sorry about everything." She said to the Sheriff as they left. Meanwhile, Jeff's body had been on a wagon with many other bodies of old and sick people, being driven by a man to another building in town. His body was placed on a table with a woman in white clothing ready to examine it. "Let's see the way this man died." She pulled up his cloak and was shocked to see a massive scar on his stomach, it had covered the entire belly and looked to be a deep wound. "What a horrifying accident this man must have gone through." She then turned around to a table with many little tools and began searching for a scalpel. While she had been searching, the body then twitched it's fingers. She finally found it and turned to the body, she began to work with the scalpel on his stomach, until he opened his eyes.

The group made it to the exit, Leroy looked angry, and Casity looked sad along with Mark. "Well, at least we made the town better." Mark said, Leroy then turned to him with anger. "Better!? Better!? You made them hate the other town even more! Got rid of a special item that is so special to the point where the town's leader's father said to protect it with your life! Also, you thought our lives were more precious then the mission at hand!" Mark looked as if he couldn't defend himself. "You would rather decide that I should die instead of doing this one thing!?" Leroy once again looked at her as if he meant what he said. "You're worse than your father!" This was the thing that did it, the thing that shook the entire group, the thing that triggered Leroy and made him lose it. Leroy began crying with an angry face, he then punched Casity. "DON'T YOU EVER COMPARE ME TO MY FATHER! YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Casity got up and brushed her punch off. "I meant what I said." Leroy then charged at her, only to be stopped by Mark who began hugging him. "LET ME GO MASTER I WANT TO KILL HER!" Mark didn't listen. "It's alright Leroy." He kept struggling in Mark's arms, until finally he began to cry in his chest and fully let out his sad side. This made Casity feel sorry for what she said, she decided that she should fix this. "Leroy, I'm sorry I went to f-" Just then, an explosion went off, which caught the attention of Leroy, Mark, and Casity. "What the hell was?" As it turns out, the morgue that Jeff's body was in had been completely destroyed, and the doctor there had been on the ground looking up in terror with what she was looking at. The thing was massive, it had been red, black spikey hair that looked like sonic, black pants, it also looked to have muscles that rivaled Red Hercules, the thing had also been about 2 feet bigger than Red Hercules, it also had sharp shark looking teeth, and red eyes. "I AM TITAN! THE NEW STRONGEST MAN IN THE WORLD AND RULER OF ALL LAND!"