Prey For Me Ch. 19

"Now, Jack," Caitlin snarled again, "where in the fuck do you think Laurie Johnston got those ideas? What, she is like a secretary and a high school graduate, G.E.D. as I recall. Not brain surgeon material."

"She got her information from that ‘locust’ Danel, one would surmise," Kim suggested.

"No shit Dick Tracy!" Caitlin seemed as if she was really ready to rant and rage. And she did, but not before Jack spoke up.

"You know," Jack mused, "about this ‘their teeth were of the teeth of lions,’ Rachael told me quite the story about that. All about dandelions, you know. She told me because the leaves of the dandelion look like a lion’s teeth, the French named it ‘dent de lion’ which became dandelion in our language. And just coincidentally, a young lady named Carmelita Sanchez …"

"Yeah," Caitlin spat, "she’s the one who crawled under the table at that restaurant and sucked your cock, isn’t that right, Jack?"

"What’s that got to do with it?" Jack groaned, becoming upset with Caitlin’s rapier sharp wit. "And why would Camelita Sanchez, who told me of the mysterious disappearance of her girlfriends, Candace Pike Martin and Roxanne ‘Blue Duck’ Alexander, be talking dandelions? Right, the two ‘locusts’ who picked up those two chicks kept chewing on dandelions, roots and all. There pockets were filled with them. What were those two dude’s names? Oh yeah, Rameel and Turel. Funny how their names sound so much like Araqiel, Kakabel and Penemue."

"And what about the gold helmets?" Jack inquired sarcastically. "Yes, you can buy a can of black spray paint for a couple bucks. I bet it’s 24 karat gold under that black paint."

"Oh well," Kim suggested, "I guess we’ll just have to steal one of the ‘locusts’ helmets and find out for sure."

Caitlin ignored Jack, except for the look that could kill. "You will find the unforgivable sin in Luke 12:10, ‘ … but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven.’ Now, that seems pretty fucking clear, does it not? To blasphemeth the Holy Ghost is the unforgivable sin. Again, that transgression has not happened yet and it can only happen with respect to one specific event, one specific moment in time.

"Let’s look at the next verse, Luke 12:11, ‘And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer or what ye shall say: (Verse 12) ‘For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.’ Now, what hour is that, do you suppose? This verse refers to what happens in the end times, the last days. How do I know it refers to the last days?

"Well, how about Acts 2:17, ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.’ Notice what it says in the verse preceding this one (Verse 16) ‘But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel.’ Now just what the fuck do you think Joel had to say?

"Let’s go find out. Joel 2:28, ‘And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out My spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.’ Now what the fuck was Joel talking about?

"If you look at Joel 2:31, ‘The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.’ Obviously he is talking about the last days, the end times. What the fuck else is Joel talking about? Oh my, he is talking about our friends the locusts just a few verses before this.

"The unforgivable sin, as I said, is not physical fornication, it is spiritual fornication. It is …"

"OK, Caitlin, give it a rest," Jack insisted. We are here, The Horny Devil."

The Horny Devil was a huge place. The owner, Butch Banks, greeted Jack warmly and was quite impressed with the three gorgeous women. "I can see you girls are going to be a big hit, whether you can sing or not," Butch joked.

"What’s up with the name of this place, The Horny Devil?" Caitlin demanded.

"Well, this place used to be a large nursing home years ago. The first of its kind in Reno, and by far the finest. But this old building was scheduled for demolition, to build a shopping mall or some such thing. I bought it cheap at a sheriff’s sale. The name, The Horny Devil, came from my olden days as a biker. I belonged to a motorcycle club called, if you can’t guess, Horny Devils. Let’s take a tour of the place."

Butch showed off the old Harleys he had on display with pride and gave a mini-lecture about each. "This is a 1929 JDH 2-Cam 74. The ‘2-Cam’ engine has a separate cam for each valve lifter. This resulted in superior performance and numerous race wins. This is a 1935 VLD Twin Carb TNT. Except for racing and experimental machines, the factory did not supply Harleys with twin carburetors. Twin carbs, however, were a popular high-performance modification. When an engine was hopped up, it was called a ‘TNT’ motor. Butch went on and on and on and talked about the 1941 U 74, the 1940 WLD 45 Special Sport and all the other old bikes he had on display.

Caitlin showed intense interest in the old Harleys but the other two seemed bored. Jack diverted Butch’s attention with, "The girls have to practice for the big gig tonight, Butch, we can’t dally too long here. Caitlin does look rather famished, though."

The Horny Devil had a restaurant and several large banquet rooms. Butch took them in the smallest room and beckoned one of his waitresses. "Bring us a few pitchers of beer, ice tea and water." He said to the girls, "You look hungry. We have a salad bar over in the restaurant if you want to grab a bite to eat."

Caitlin immediately jumped up and rushed off to the salad bar. Sal and Kim followed somewhat reluctantly behind. When they returned, Caitlin had a heaping plate in each hand. Sal and Kim each had a plate about half full, mostly with rabbit food.

Kim kidded, "Butch, you would have pizza with anchovies. Caitlin took every piece." The three girls burst into a fit of giggling.

"What’s so funny?" Jack asked.

Sal explained with as much of a straight face as she could muster. "A few days ago Caitlin got the munchies in the middle of the night and ran off to get pizza with anchovies. Not only did she come back with the pizza, she came back with some incredible story about how she sucked off two shy college guys."

"And bit off their dicks!" Kim shouted as the three girls convulsed in laughter.

"Well," Jack chided, "I seriously doubt that Caitlin is a Lilith and you three better straighten up. This is serious business. Now, Butch here is going to give you a little lesson in biker lingo, just so you can talk intelligently with these ‘locusts.’

Butch began with, "A ‘one-percenter’ is a member of an outlaw motorcycle gang; ‘13’ is a dealer in methamphetamines, what with M being the 13th letter of the the alphabet; ‘22’ is time done in prison; ‘catwalk’ is a wheelie; ‘class’ is a violent act; ‘free rider’ is a person who shares the same values but doesn’t formally belong to a gang; ‘Jap scrap’ is … "

"Hey," Kim noted sardonically, "that’s us, ‘free riders.’ Butch ignored her and continued on an on. Caitlin closed her eyes and laid her head on the table.

"There’s the bandstand," Butch finally said as he sensed everyone was tiring of Harley talk. You can go set up your equipment, practice, whatever. The show starts at 9:00 PM, and quite frankly, I can’t wait."

The girls played their repertoire of tunes for two nights with no sign of the locusts. On the third night Araqiel, Kakebel and Penemue strolled in like they owned the place and took a vacant table in front just left by a small group who appeared to be celebrating someone’s wedding anniversary.

"OK," Caitlin instructed, "let’s sing some special songs for our favorite ‘locusts’ shall we?

After they did their rendition of Motorcycle Girl by Cruzados, Penamue and Sal had something going on with their eye contact and body language. After the set, Caitlin asked Sal what was up with that.

"Penamue stared at me and our eyes connected. He smiled and wouldn’t let me go and then winked. It was magical. In a single moment … with a single glance, he had managed to symbolically enter me and overtake me with such lurid passion to the deepest depths of my being."

"Hey, you better be careful, Sal," Caitlin admonished, "we are supposed to do the seducing, remember? Don’t fall for this dude. Now get your head on straight. I know, I know, you’re blonde."

The girls did all the songs they had rehearsed, Purple Haze and Watchmen and all the others. The three ‘locusts’ were paying very close attention. Then, at the end of the last set, Caitlin whispered to Sal and Kim it was time to do their new one, Lilywhite Lilith, by Genesis.

"The chamber was in confusion

all the voices shouting loud.

I could only just hear a voice quite near say

‘Please help me through the crowd.’

Said if I helped her thru she could help me too,

But I could see that she was wholly blind.

But from her pale face and her pale skin,

A moonlight shined.

Lilywhite Lilith,

She’s gonna take you thru the tunnel of night.

Lilywhite Lilith,

She gonna lead you right.

When I’d led her through the people,

The angry noise began to grow.

She said ‘Let me feel the way the breezes blow

And I’ll show you where to go.’

So I followed her into a big round cave,

She said ‘They’re coming for you, now don’t be afraid.’

Then she sat me down on a cold stone throne, carved in jade.

Lilywhite Lilith,

She’s gonna take you thru the tunnel of night.

Lilywhite Lilith,

She’s gonna lead you right.

She leaves me in my darkness,

I have to face my fear,

And the darkness closes in on me,

I can hear a whirring sound growing near.

I can see the corner of tunnel,

Lit up by whatever’s coming here.

Two golden globes float in the room

And a blaze of white light fills the air."

Kakabel approached the girls on the bandstand and asked if they would join he and his two friends for a last call drink. They sat at the table and Caitlin, Kim and Sal briefly introduced themselves, as did the ‘locusts.’

"You guys must be bikers," Sal commented, to break the ice.

"Yeah, what’s your scoot?" Caitlin added.

Araqiel responded to the question. "I ride a 2000 Millenium FXR 4 Limited Edition. Only 900 were manufactured. Mine is bright yellow. Kakabel rides a 1995 all black Bad Boy. Springer front end, Vancenhines exhaust, triple lights, floating rotors, badlander lights, sissy bar and a mag wheel on front. Penamue rides a 1993 FLH-TC Anniversary; the one with the blower. His is mostly silver and gray. What about you girls? You got scoots or do you just dress the part?

Caitlin snarled, "We ride brand spanking new Sportsters, dude. Let’s go out to the parking lot and you can check them out, just in case you think we drive station wagons or some such thing. We got like a special discount since we bought three at once."

"Oh yeah, a Sportster," Penamue joked, "that’s a nice girl’s bike."

"At least it’s a Harley and not some Jap scrap," Sal replied with a wink at Caitlin, who winked back, acknowledging that she paid attention to Butch’s lingo lesson.

"That was an interesting song you girls did about Lilith," Penemue remarked. What do you really know about Lilith?"

"Oh shit, dude," Kim snipped, "don’t get her started on that!" She nodded toward Caitlin.

"Who, who? Who me? The screech owl of Isaiah 34:14 you say? Doh! You mean one and only Lilith who invented fellatio and was the first vampire?"

The three ‘locusts’ appeared to be quite startled.

Caitlin continued, "Or are you talking about some bullshit story like The Epic of Gilgamesh? That literary masterpiece written on 12 clay tablet in cuneiform around 2000 BC. You undoubtedly know the story is mostly about the Babylonian king named, of course, Gilgamesh. Lilith is portrayed as a vampire harlot who attempts to charm the serpent. The serpent of Genesis 3, you know, Satan.

"I saw an ancient Persian bowl at the Semetic Museum at Harvard University which had an inscription referring to Lilith. It went something like this, ‘The evil Lilith, who causes the hearts of men to go astray, and appears in the dream of the night and in the vision of the day.’ There is a similar bowl with a similar inscription at the museum at the University of Pennsylvania."

"And just what were you doing at Harvard I wonder?" Kakabel inquired. "You don’t look like the Harvard type, what with being a biker babe and all."

Kim guffawed. "Caitlin is a professor at the Harvard Divinity School."

"Yeah right," Caitlin agreed with a look directed at Kim that could kill. "Obviously Kim is pulling your leg, but I am interested in Lilith. Hey, I went to the Lilith Fair. Last year Sheryl Crow, the Dixie Chicks and Queen Latifah were featured artists on the concert tour. What I liked best about Lilith Fair is that it really pissed off Jerry Falwell.

"Where was I?" Caitlin asked irritably. "A very interesting Lilith story is found in the Alphabet of Ben Sira. Lilith was Adam’s first mate. She considered herself superior to Adam, disdained the missionary position, distanced herself from his authority and fled the Garden. Of particular interest is that Lilith knew the hidden name of God, the name which God didn’t even want to reveal to Moses."

After all the customers and help left, Butch flipped the keys to Caitlin and asked that she lock up whenever they left. The three women and the three ‘locusts’ talked into dawn. Caitlin directed and redirected the conversation to subjects that she knew other ‘locusts,’ particularly Danel, had mentioned.

Caitlin recalled Jack’s notes regarding Danel’s comments about the Great Pyramid at Giza he made to Joshua Marshall, Rachael and her mother. She pulled a one dollar bill out of her purse. "See what’s on the back?" The Great Pyramid. And a big eyeball. What does that mean do you suppose? Not waiting for a reply, Caitlin replayed what Danel had said.

"The Great Pyramid covers over 13 acres. It is absolutely the greatest archaelogical discovery of all time. Napoleon and his army defeated the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of the Pyramids in 1798. Only after that and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone by one of Napoleon’s officers and the unraveling of the hieroglyphics did the Great Pyramid begin to be understood.

"I know you dudes must be students of the bible. The good book talks about the Great Pyramid. Isaiah 19:19, ‘In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD." Verse 20, ‘And it shall be for a sign, and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt …"

"The Great Pyramid was never used for a tomb. Nobody was ever buried there. What then was the purpose? Cheops, also known as Khufu, for whom it was supposedly intended was buried elsewhere. Just ask those old historians Herodotus and Diodorus. Who directed the building of this supernatural structure? Job? Enoch? The Nephilim, the fallen angels? The theories are mind-boggling. Why the big eye on the dollar bill? Some say it is a Masonic conspiracy. The first masons helped build this pyramid."

Kim excused herself just then to go powder her nose, so she said. Outside to the parking lot she went and found the Harleys the ‘locusts’ rode. She took a small knife out of purse and scraped a small spot on Penamue’s helmet. Gold was underneath the black. She covered the spot with black mascara. Caitlin merely nodded somberly when Kim whispered her discovery.

Caitlin continued, "Napoleon and Alexander the Great both had supernatural experiences in the Great Pyramid. Some say they were both demon possessed. They both wanted to be God and had visions in the King’s Chamber. Some say those demons were exorcised and both went on to meet their demise as world rulers."

"That is some story," Kakabel marveled.

"Oh yeah, I have a little tune about the pyramid. Listen to this one …

Somber, mysterious, lofty, ancient pile,

Enigma of remotest history,

Who set thee here beside the storied Nile,

Eternal watch to keep?

What Master Architect conceived thy plan?

Thou baffling riddle of the centuries,

Standing where Egypt’s delta, like a fan,

Spreads northward, lush and green.

What skilful workman wrought in ages past,

So long ago their tools, their books, their songs,

The echo of their speech are lost to us?

No puny folk were they who set these stones

With artful nicety each in its place,

To stand, while things like nations, kings and thrones

Grow old and crumble into dust.

Unlike the other buildings standing near,

The Great Pyramid was built by angels I fear.

Something to take their mind off sex with female mortals,

Those Nephilim played a few games with portals."

"You know what, Caitlin?" Araqiel smirked, "you are one fucking crazy bitch. But let me get back to your daddy, Job. You girls call your group Job’s Daughters. Your father must have told you the story. By the way, I know for a fact that your daddy Job was not some unknown biblical personage. He was the son of Issachar and one of Moses’ pals. Moses wrote the book of Job, as an eye-witness to the events it records in Midian."

"Ah yes, Araqiel," Caitlin smirked back, "of course I know the story of my daddy, Job. But let me refresh your memory. Job 38:4, ‘Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding. (Verse 5) ‘Who hath laid the measures therof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line upon it?’ (Verse 6) ‘Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;’ (Verse 7) ‘When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?’ God’s message to my father Job seems to be that you laid the foundations of the Great Pyramid at Giza, but where were you when I laid the far greater foundations of the earth? Of course, the ‘morning stars’ were there, both times. The ‘sons of God’ were there, both times. And who do you suppose these dudes are, Araqiel?"

"Angels I guess," Araqiel replied hesitantly.

"Good guess, Araqiel. And what angels were on earth I wonder, according to your favorite book, the bible? Oh no, not the fallen angels, the Nephilim. And what about the ‘corner stone’ referred to in these verses? What’s up with that?"

"The corner stone can refer to only one of two things as you know full well, Caitlin. Either the missing top of the Great Pyramid, or Jesus Christ."

"Hey you all," Sal interrupted, "I suggest we go back to our place. We have the best suite at the best hotel-casino in Reno. The Jacuzzi is awesome!"

"Aren’t you girls a little apprehensive about going off with guys you just met?" Penemue asked.

"Should we be?" Caitlin retorted. "What, are you supernatural or some such thing? Are you going to feed us some sort of date rape drug? We’ll take our chances, let’s go! You dudes could be the ones in trouble."

"Do you girls like anal?" Kakabel asked in jest.

"Do dogs bark?" Caitlin growled.

"I’m kidding, I’m kidding," Kakabel backed off.

"I’m not!" Caitlin fired back, and whispered to Kim, "Maybe we’ll do to them what Lilith did to Sal’s father. They’ll be crying for their mamas. We’ll get the truth out of them. Bet me. Put a little BEN GAY on the end of the strap-on dildos we stick up their arses, they’ll be singing like birds, ‘er make that ‘locusts.’ You brought the bag of our special equipment, right?" Kim nodded knowingly.

To Be Continued …