Fiends of Destruction (Hollow)

Barton looked all over New York City trying to find his beloved Amanda, he didn't know where to start but still he was determined to talk to her at least one last time. After going around in his old pickup truck he saw big picture of her, the poster had her face but with a different name, she was not longer Amanda, she called herself Diva now, a rising star among singers!

She had changed alot, fancy and glamorous, she wasn't that country gal any more.

She was going to give an espectucule tonight in Manhattan, in a luxurious Hotel called Excelsior Hotel.

Burton tried his way in but nothing worked, not even trying to blackmail the security so he had to go to the basement, she'll leave the building through there and by a lucky shot Hollow managed his way in.

There he waited... waited for his beloved Amanda to show up.

More than an hour passed and eventually a crowd approached, a limousine came close to the door and the security started to fill the place, they were not as many as the ones outside but still much more than one, Burton felt overwhelmed but at least he will be able to see her and if he was valient enough to talk to her.

Few seconds after the building door that lead from the inside to the basement parking loot where Hollow was opened, two men escorting Amanda from the building and then to the limousine. This was the time, now or never.

Amanda seemed to be getting angry and angrier as she heard Burton's words and few seconds after he started to talk her hand went suddenly to his throat, lifting him from the ground with just one hand!

Hollow didn't fit in his surprise! this thin and almost fragile woman was stranggling him by his neck, hanging him like a dog from a rope. Then she said.
"Don't you dare to call me Mandy!"

Her voice was full of hatred, perversion and torment. Hollow felt, literally, like a drilling hammer going through his both ears inside of his brain piercing deep. Her words were physically damaging for him and her own guards whom had to take two steps back covering their ears in pain. Burton's ears and nose started to drip blood from it. This was not human.

A moment after Amanda threw Hollow a couple of yards away like he was light as a feather, from the ground and still in shock for this event he could saw her eyes pouring two thin tears down her cheeks, still her face was defiled by hatred and anger.

The men were amused by Hollow's words but that didn't changed their resolve to kill him defenseless and point blank to the head, the both of them in case of Burtons trying to fight back. There was no body else at this hours except for Amandas security in that basement, specially due to her performance the access had been restricted to its minimal expression.

Then, when everything seem lost Hollow noticed that one of the other men that was far away standing next to a pillar was gone, he heard a noise and again at the other side the man there was gone, it was confusing, did Burton imagine them to be there? Impossible.

That was when a very strange man came out of another pillar charging against Hollow's slayers, this monster was not human, he could not even been mistaken as a human.


The Beast attacked one of the man that was pointing at Hollows punching him on the spine, the sound betrayed the fact that it was broken just with that single blow but before the Beast could attack the other man a firegun shooted, his gun fired at Hollow impacting him on the neck, destroying his throat, the spine and part of the jaw. Blood and pain!

Then the Beast attack the other punching it on the head, killing him instantly.

Burton fell down, cofing and bleeding to death. The beast got close to him and in a hurry it lifted Hollow from the ground and carrying him ran to the basement next level, there a car was waiting a man was standing next to it surprise more about the man in the Beast arms than about the Beast itself, when the both of them were close enough the man said.
"My Lord, who is he?"

These were the Beast last words before Hollow lost conciousness.
"This is the Key..."