23 CHAPTER TWENTY THREE: EVIL FORES

Undisclosed Location, Kebby Creek

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Caesar painfully opened his eyes and groaned His head was feeling like it had been given the mortar and pestle treatment. He suddenly aware that he was bound hand and foot and was stuffed inside a container. The stink of fuel and the trundle of rubber told him the container was in fact the boot of a car.

He heard a sound that almost made him jump. Someone winced behind him. He couldn't see who it was but he knew it was Vera. She was slightly on top of him both of them lay in the boot like sacks of potatoes and they were now been driven to some unknown destination.

The final destination, he thought morbidly. No doubt about it they were going to be disposed of.

He tried to struggle against his bonds. Nil. He was bound up good and tight like a Christmas turkey ready to have it's throat slit.

He stretched his fingers out and he touched Vera's own fingers. Her fingers moved.

"Vera!" he whispered urgently, "Vera!"

She groaned in pain.

"Vera listen to me" he continued desperately, "we have to get out of here!"

"Caesar is it you?"

"Yes, it's me."

"We're inside the boot of a car" she whispered in horror" where are they taking us?"

"I don't know" admitted Caesar, " And I don't think you will want to know,"

"Oh God" she wailed pitifully, "they 're going to kill us!"

Her whining suddenly irritated Caesar.

"Shut up and listen, "he said roughly, "your fingers can reach the cord around my wrists. Try and untie them. Claw at them with your nails if you have to. Now!"

She winced her obedience and shifted towards him. Her long fingers found his wrists and they at once began to work on the rope. Soon she began to claw at them in a frenzied manner and Caesar gritted his teeth with pain as the nails scratched his skin, slicing into it with the smoothness of razors. He could feel blood trickling down his wrists into his palms.

Ten minutes later Caesar thought he felt the ropes slackening but suddenly he noticed that the car was slowing down.

"Shit!" he swore "we've stopping. Just keep calm."

The car came to a halt and Caesar heard doors opening and slamming. The lid of the boot was opened and a flashlight was aimed at their eyes.

"Evening, Boys and Girls." Tony's voice said jovially, "we've reached the venue of the party. Sorry you two couldn't travel first class but I'm sure you'll understand."

Strong hands reached inside and Caesar felt himself being roughly hauled out. He was tossed carelessly on the soggy ground and soon Vera's body landed on top of him. The air was knocked completely out of him after both impacts and he lay there stunned.

When he got back his breath he looked around him. He expected them to end up at the marshes but instead he saw trees all around him.

"Where are we?" he asked curiously

"An evil forest " said Tony "one of the many all over Delta State. People normally dump corpses of robbers, foreigners or outcasts here. Most locals think the place is cursed and haunted so they don't come here often. Come to think of it never."

"What are you giving to do to us?" Caesar asked tensely.

"you guys are going to be buried out here" he said cheerfully, " No one will even find your bodies in a hundred years from now and by that time you two should be doing something useful, like forming part of this town's crude oil."

"And you think you'll get away with this?"

"Why shouldn't we? Of course we will. Venus here will go back to town and take the place of her sister. Everyone will think she's Vera anyway. Now shut up I have some digging to do."

He went to the back seat pulled out a shovel. He turned to Venus who had been watching the scene with mild interest.

"Venus" he said softly "why don't you sit in the car. You might not want to see all this."

"I want to watch," she said coldly. Tony shrugged and went over to a spot and began to dig.

Vera who had been whimpering quietly to herself suddenly screamed out.

"Venus, please don't do this to me!" she begged. "You are my twin sister!"

The only reaction on Venus face was a slight smile.

"Is that so?" she said, an unholy gleam in her eye. "One year ago you didn't think that. Now all your treachery will be buried with you. Goodbye, my sister."

"Please don't " she wailed pitifully. Venus began to laugh maniacally. Caesar cringed. What the blazes had he got himself into?

The sound of digging was the only thing that could be heard in the forest. The forest seemed dead, devoid of life. No creature moved. Everything was still. The still of the night.

Caesar tried to unto his bonds but he couldn't make himself so apparent. Venus was watching them unblinkingly. She looked like a cat out of Hell.

Soon the shallow grave was finished and Tony threw down the shovel and came towards where they lay helplessly. One by one he picked each of them up bodily and tossed them into the pit.

As Caesar lay choking on the soft earth, he felt dirt being piled on top of him. They were being buried alive!

Vera went into hysterics and continued to scream and scream.

"Scream all you want, sister," said Venus sweetly, "No one but us can hear you."

Caesar struggled furiously with his bonds, the cords on the wrist slackened and eventually he managed to wriggle his wrists free. By this time they were already half buried. He bent forward and yanked out the cords on his ankles. He managed to pull them off just as Tony noticed he was free. Tony snarled and raised the shovel as Caesar struggled to his feet. He was aiming to split his head open. Caesar reached out of the hole and grabbed Tony's ankles. He pulled viciously and Tony gave a yell as he was yanked into the hole. The shovel came with him.

Caesar lashed out and socked the young policeman on the jaw. The blow nearly felled him but Tony's first came up on his chin and he keeled over and fell on top of Vera who was crying her heart out.

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Tony picked up the shovel and raised it again. Venus ran to the edge of the pit to watch. The shovel came down hard and Caesar shot up a foot to deflect the blow, which would have flattened his face. He rolled over and got up and forming his fingers into a blade, stabbed Tony in the solar plexus. Tony gasped and doubled over. Caesar clasped his to fists together and raising his arms above his head, brought it down like a mallet on Tony's skull. Tony flattened out at the bottom of the pit. Caesar went over to him and pulled out the gun in his waist band. Venus saw his action and spun around and fled.

Caesar climbed out of the pit and saw Vera heading towards the trees.

"Stop or I shoot!" he yelled at the reteatting figure as he raised the gun. But he might have been talking to the trees. Venus had vanished.