The Nosferatu Chronicles: The Aztec God by Hamilton Susan

Author:Hamilton, Susan [Hamilton, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-11-24T16:00:00+00:00

MASSACRE

Mesoamerica, 1520

Dujot sprinted toward the coast with lightning speed. He had dressed himself in native clothing to make sure any survivors would blame the Aztecs for what was about to happen. The Spanish troops were sleeping, and no one was on watch. They had become complacent after easily defeating any resistance they had so far encountered from the natives, giving Dujot the advantage of a surprise attack. By the time the alarm was raised, he had killed over twenty, easily ripping out their throats. A group of Conquistadors came at him with their swords, and he sent them scattering with a blow from his forearm. A loud crack sounded in the air, and after a wave of pain surged through his body, he saw blood spurting from a deep wound to his shoulder. As a terrified Conquistador desperately tried to reload his musket, Dujot charged toward him in a blur and impaled him with his own weapon.

The injured watched in horror as Dujot took out an obsidian knife and cut out the hearts of those he had just killed. He knew that this abominable act would be enough to convince the Spanish that the Aztecs were responsible, since they were ignorant of the fact that the Aztecs always took prisoners alive in order to use them for sacrifices. Before disappearing into the rainforest, he finished off the injured, except for a handful who would report what they had seen. Once out of sight, Dujot fed heartily off the body of an unconscious Spaniard before returning to Tenochtitlan.

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Cortés had not fled in terror, as Dujot had anticipated. Upon learning that several of his troops had been butchered by Aztecs, Cortés had decided to hold Montezuma hostage in his own palace and rule through him.

However, another opportunity for driving out the Spanish presented itself when Cortés’s superior, Velázquez, sent another expedition to Tenochtitlan. Jealous of reports of the vast amounts of silver and gold that Cortés had confiscated from the Aztecs, Velázquez sent Cortés’s rival, Narváez, to oppose him, arriving with over a thousand men. Cortés set out to confront Narváez, leaving only a skeleton force behind in Tenochtitlan.

Dujot quickly sprang into action. Donning his monastic robe, he walked into the palace where Montezuma was under house arrest.

“Cortés has asked me to facilitate Montezuma’s conversion to Catholicism,” he said to an official. “I have prepared some biblical lessons to discuss with him.”

Once inside Montezuma’s chamber, Dujot looked intensely into his eyes and spoke to him in the Náhuatl language. “Noble king, you are in great danger. Cortés pretends to be Quetzalcoatl in order to plunder the wealth of the Aztecs.”

Montezuma stared unbelievingly at Dujot. “No, it cannot be true. The signs were clear — the vision I saw in the crest of the bird and my sister’s message when she returned from the underworld. The triple-headed comet on the eve of Quetzalcoatl’s predicted return and Cortés arriving by sea the next day — the omens do not lie!”

Dujot pulled back the hood of his robe.

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