seymoure | Chapter 14

Chapter 14
“Last Stand in Cedar City”

     Before the first of the monstrosities could take a step, Mary Jane had taken a piece of leather from behind her back, and strapped the child in it. Doc Thursday shot the last of his arrows over the heads of the oncoming creatures, but this one was stung with the amazing unbreakable wire that had been used to swing the gargoyles before.
     J.J. threaded the wire though the harness and with the quickness of thought the child was lifted into the air.
     All eyes followed the little girl as she flew to the top of the factory and into the arms of Doc Faustus. Clinging to his massive legs were the other children, every one safe and sound.
     The vampire growled in anger and frustration.
     Faustus handed the little girl to Igloo Magoo. With fatherly concern the little man took the girl and the other children and disappeared.
     “Didn’t I have him killed” Feratu mused.
     “He’s on our side now,” Doc Faustus announced, “And he will protect those children with his very life!”
     Doc tied off the wire on an outcropping of granite and then swung down to join his compatriots.
     “Leaping lightning!” Baxter Platt shouted, now as a battlecry.
     Blades glinted, non-kill bullets rang out and giant monsters fell.
     From the roof top there echoed three shots from a .45, and a moment later a giant monster fell over the edge toward the street. Children clapped their hands in victory.
     “I’m sorry Field wasn’t here to see this,”      Mr. Mike said, as he put his gigantic fist through the face of a monster.
     After a momentary flurry of action the street was silent.
     Seven pairs of eyes scanned the scene.
     The allies of science stood in a back to back circle, and around the ring were the littered corpses of blue-green giants.      Not one of those gargantuan creatures showed any sign of ever moving again.
     “That,” said Mat, “Was our second fastest fight.”* (*See “Doc Faustus and the Pacifists of Pago-Pago”)
     Doc’s eyes turned to the factory. “We still have one foe left to bring down.” He said as he moved to the door and ten long strides.
     The others were right behind him.
     As they burst through the door, they saw Feratu trying to climb out a window on the far wall.
     “That won’t work,” Shouted Doc Faustus.
     The bloodless face turned to them and hissed.
     “Man,” Said Baxter, “You can smell his breath from here.”
     They all agreed.
     “It’s” Doctor Thursday started. Mat finished for him, saying, “Surprisingly fresh!”
     They all nodded.
     The beast jumped from the window onto a catwalk. Doc and his companions encircled the floor under him. Every direction he attempted to move, he was countered.
     Now Doc and Mary Jane were on the catwalk itself, closing in on him. They were now all over the chemical vats.
     Doc jumped to grab the creatures’ arm and in countering the thing fell off the catwalk. Neither Doc nor Mary Jane could catch him.
     As the thing sank into the bubbling cauldron of evil, the scent of pine filled the air.
     Doc stood, leaning on the rail, and looked down into what would become one of the first major air freshener creation vats. “Thus ever, evil ends!” he commented.
     “Amen,” added all his aides.
     Let it ever be, so long as Doc Faustus and the Secret Science Six are there to stand guard for America and Humanity (In that order).

THE END
©2005 C. Wayne Owens