Infernal Contract by Thomas Green

Author:Thomas Green [Green, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-03T04:00:00+00:00

Amarendra 4

I STARED AT THE CARNAGE, breathless. Torn-apart bodies covered the hallways leading to the Medical Ward. The stench of death reached my nose. My stomach heaved and I nearly released my dinner onto the floor.

Hades stepped to my side. Unconscious, Lucas floated in a cloud of darkness by Hades’s side. The God of Underworld offered me a compassionate smile. “It takes decades to get used to this.” He moved his hand and darkness reached out from his shadow.

As if it was material, the blackness cleared our path, stacking the corpses by the sides.

One corpse twitched and the man coughed through the broken visor. I rushed to him. After I removed his helmet, Sora smiled tiredly, breaking the layer of dried blood that covered most of his face. More dried blood glued together his clothes. He glanced at Hades. “No offense, but you should have told us the collar restrictions could be loosened.”

I froze. The connection formed in my mind: I loosened Ares’s collar, Lucas analyzed it after the fight and then reverse-engineered the process.

Hades nodded. “Can you walk?”

“Yes.” Sora joined us on the trip to the medical ward.

The examination room lay in shambles. The RTG scanner wasn’t broken, but the supplies stored there were scattered across the room. Cold dread crept up my spine. Lucas was a distraction, serving for whatever they wanted to take from here. With a quick glance, I confirmed the welding machine stored here was missing. Why would they take that?

“We will need to search the prison,” Sora whispered.

“Later.” Hades spread the darkness through the room and cleared the path to the old tomograph that stood to the side. The darkness cloud dropped Lucas onto the machine and strapped him in.

I sat down by the computer and Sora sagged down on a chair by the wall.

“When I fought Lucas, he sputtered nonsense about Evelyn being murdered,” Hades said and stepped to me. “Scan his brain for damage”

I started the tomograph and we both watched the scan. As the picture of Lucas’s brain showed, I saw no major deformation. For a more precise test, I would need an MRI, but the prison wasn’t equipped with that. “Nothing.”

“Then how did this happen?”

“The memory extraction we did was risky to begin with,” I whispered. “It is possible the false images we fed blended with his memories, making him delusional.”

“We need to kill him,” Sora remarked.

Slowly, Hades nodded. “I will try to arrange that.” He drew a phone from his pocket, typed out a number and switched the sound to the speaker.

The person he called picked up during the first beep. “What is it?” a sharp, female voice asked from the phone. I didn’t recognize it, but both Sora and Hades tensed.

Hades cleared his throat. “Lady Lucielle, pardon the intrusion—”

“Get to the point,” she snapped.

Hades shook his head with a silent sigh. Sweat covered his brow and his skin paled a tone. “We have encountered a problem with Lucifer.”

“Be specific.”

“He went on a rampage, during which he killed over four hundred prisoners.

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