Never a dull moment...
Sergeant YoJi took a good look at his control unit. The information that was displayed in front of him was accurate and up-to-date.
Good. There will be no mistakes this evening.
The time was only 6.30 pm.
YoJi had been on guard for 5 hours now, watching the battlefield of Golden Village foyer, controlling the maddened horde of patrons as they ran into their caves to hide until it was time for them to leave their place of leisure and solitude.
It had been a tough 5 hours. The presence of new prey, the dreaded Kandasamy, had drawn more patrons than anyone had expected. But for the past few days, YoJi and his team had managed to hold out.
A grunt from his side told him that his CO had arrived. Lieutenant JC looked YoJi up and down before jotting something down on the control panel.
YoJi looked at his commanding officer. The man was slightly shorter than him, but YoJi knew he could pack a punch. He had seen this man single-handedly control a maddened crowd of patrons as they stampeded for the caves. Some of them were probably lying in a daze outside the cinema right now. He was a force to be reckoned with...
Jc looked at YoJi.
"Ok. Scout out 1 and 2 and report back asap. You'll be down for clean-out in ten minutes in cave 4."
YoJi nodded and left, pulling his weapon close to him, his trusty flashlight. His walkie- talkie crackled once. He reached behind his pants where it hund and adjusted the volume. YoJi made his way to cave 1, alert.
He entered the darkened cavern, taken aback by the sounds of thunder and gunfire coming from within. He walked up the stairs and scouted the cave. The patrons were quiet, hypnotized by the moving light on the wall in front of them. YoJi pulled his flashlight close and walked down the cave, watching carefully on both sides. One of them coughed. Yoga's hands dropped immediately to his walkie, anticipating the worst.
Nothing happened.
Quickly finishing up what he needed to do, he left cave 1.
He walked back out into the light and turned to cave 2 when suddenly his walkie crackled.
"General to YoJi. Come in YoJi."
YoJi drew the walkie and placed it to his mouth, then he pressed the button.
"Send over General."
"There is a problem in cave 6. Patron reported some small avian form flying in the air. Scout and report."
"Roger that."
YoJi sighed and made his way to cave 6, clipping his walkie back to his pants. Never a dull moment. He entered cave 6, and was again assailed by the sounds of screaming and yelling. He began walking up the stairs, when suddenly, he heard fluttering somewhere close in the darkness. YoJi drew his flashlight and switched it on...
To see dark eyes and wings flying straight at his face.
He ducked instinctively, the winged demon flying over his head. YoJi jumped for the door to close it, but it was too late. The demon was already out of the cave. Cursing his luck, YoJi got to his feet, pulling the walkie up to his mouth.
"YoJi to all ground troopers. We have an escaped demon loose in the foyer. I repeat there is a winged demon loose in the foyer."
He pulled open the door and ran out, just in time to see JC sprint up to him. JC threw a broom into the air. YoJi caught it and without missing a beat, turned and ran beside JC. In front of them, the winged demon flew, its screeches barely audible in the noisy foyer. Someone screamed as the demon passed over their heads. Suddenly, it turned in mid-air, diving to its right across the canyon.
YoJi looked over at JC.
"Split up and box it in!"
JC took off across the bridge that hung in the middle of the foyer, skidding to a stop right down the middle. YoJi ran straight to the other side of the foyer, positioning himself right in the middle. On the far side of the foyer, he could see his other comrades, LH and BG take positions on either side of the wall. The bat flew right smack in middle of the triangle that BG, LH and JC formed. One by one, BG and LH started to clap loudly.
The demon, irritated by the claps, banked away slowly from them, heading towards JC. Once it past JC, JC also started to clap. On both sides of the foyer, BG and LH had walked down, clapping loudly to scare the demon. Now the demon sttod in between YoJi and the three men.
Slowly, but steadily, the demon was coming closer to YoJi.
YoJi crouched, the broom clutched tightly in his hands. He had only one shot at this. Slowly the demon made its way withing 10 feet of YoJi...then 8 feet...then 6....then it was only 2 feet away, fluttering around, surrounded by LH, JC and BG.
All 3 looked at YoJi, waiting on him.
Not yet...Just a bit more...
Now the demon was directly above YoJi's head.
With a sudden leap straight up, YoJi raised the broom right above his head. In that split second, Demon and Man looked each other eye to eye. Slowly, YoJi started to fall.
With a loud crack, he brought the broom smashing on top of the demon's head. The beast flew straight into the wall, its head smashed in. Lying on the floor, it twitched once, before lying still.
All four men crowded around the beast. Suddenly, lying on the ground, the beast didn't look so beastly any more...It looked warm and fuzzy...and innocent.
They grimaced as they removed the corpse and disposed of it.
It was part of their jobs.
Just then, their walkies crackled again, as General's voice came through.
"General to all Ushers. Come in Ushers."
JC looked at the rest before answering the call. Definitely not good news.
"Send over General."
"We have a problem..."
YoJi sighed...
Never a dull moment...
To be Continued...
