Chapter 14

It was 3:00 AM. Baz was on guard duty, standing around with a bat watching a handful of girls get fucked by an insatiable plant. Laurel was lurking outside the tall brick fence with a five gallon can of gasoline, waiting to hand it over to Baz. Kate, inside the house, pulled the fire alarm.

The plan had been that everyone would leave the house and wait on the street in front. Baz would grab the gas from Laurel and set fire to the demonic plant before the fire department arrived. Even if the fire didn’t kill it, hopefully the gas-soaked soil would.

The orgy girls did stop copulating with the plant when they heard the alarm, but instead of leaving according to the posted evacuation plan, they formed a circle around the plant, ready to protect it or move it. The girls asleep in the house woke up, but instead of heading outside, they patrolled the house to identify the threat. When the fire department showed up, Melissa, in her nightgown, sweetly explained that it had been a drunken mistake and apologized. There was no need for them to inspect further.

During the commotion, Avery reviewed the surveillance footage. After the firefighters left, Kate was given twenty seconds to leave before her head would be split open by a bat.

The conspirators met back at Kate’s apartment; they were all too amped on adrenaline to sleep.

“What if we kidnap the girls and deprogram them, one by one?” Baz suggested. “You could do that, right?” He asked Laurel.

“Yeah,” Laurel said shyly. “But it would probably take a couple hours each.”

“We’re kinda short on manpower for a kidnapping, dude,” Kate pointed out, spinning her wheelchair in a circle to make her point. “Even if we could grab one or two without ending up in jail, they’d probably send a dozen cheerleader assassins to stop us as soon as they figured it out.”

“Well fuck it,” Baz said as he kicked off his boots and popped open a beer. “We’ll just have to summon a bigger demon to go kick this one’s ass. One of those Diablo type guys - twelve feet tall with horns and bone sticking out everywhere.”

Kate and Baz expected Laurel to react, somehow, but instead she was silent with her thinking face on.

“Laur? What are you thinking?” Kate finally said cautiously.

“Well, I mean, a plant demon can’t reason - all it knows is how to survive,” Laurel explained. “But a human-like demon could be commanded.”

“I don’t see how some big red dude eviscerating the whole sorority house is an improvement,” Kate argued.

“Well, it would be better, because it would keep the plant from spreading - if we could contain it after. But that’s not what I had in mind,” Laurel countered. “What if we summoned an incubus? There are spells to compel demons to do what you say. I think a sex demon’s domination magic could probably overpower the plant’s. He could distract the girls enough for us to go kill the plant.”

“Are we really talking about swallowing the spider to catch the fly?” Baz asked incredulously.

“I mean, maybe,” Laurel answered. “I’ll need to research it.”

Kate rubbed her forehead. “Christ, I’m going to have so much trouble explaining to my parents why my grades suck this semester. I’m going to bed. You guys are welcome to stay.”