Saint Thomas stood in the shadows of night across from the entrance of Blood Diamond's 6th street and Broadway club entrance. Saint Thomas had been there since light.
Across the street the crowd had changed form a business sidewalk crowd going to and from work to a business night crowd going to and from bar to a few people roaming the street either searching for something lost, hoping to find something new or up to bad things.
Saint Thomas was looking for all three, and all three where across the street beyond the entrance of Blood Diamond's 6th and Broadway club entrance.
The office Blood Diamond's 6th and Broadway club entrance was black bordered with a red door and two humans with lots of muscles. One human with lots of muscles Saint Thomas identified who could enter the club entrance of the office of Blood Diamond. Other human with lots of muscles Saint Thomas identified as one who stood there with arms folded and made sure now one got in to the Blood Diamond club without being identified.
Saint Thomas walked from the shadows and into the the night and moon light. Saint Thomas tipped back his cowboy had and flowed into the light of a street lamp. Saint Thomas started to whistle and look down the street to the corner of the block of the Blood Diamond club and saw another human with lots of muscles, arms folded and looking at Saint Thomas.
Saint Thomas gave a nod in the direction of the human with lots of muscles standing on the corner.
Saint Thomas looked the other way and flowed down the other way to a cross walk. The lights turn red and the hand green. Saint Thomas flowed across the street and toward another human with lots of muscles, arms folded and legs walking and head looking around.
Saint Thomas tipped hat and walked across the street toward the human with lots of muscles.
The human with lots of muscles dressed in red boots, a blood red shirt and black tights with a vest flexes. The human with lots of muscles dressed in red boots, a blood red shirt and black tights with a vest starred at Saint Thomas.
Saint Thomas smiled and seen, <Good Night.>
The human with lots of muscles, dressed in a blood red shirt and black tights and vest, seen <YES.>
Saint Thomas flowed across the street to curb then side walk and to the human with lots of muscles, dressed in a blood red shirt and black tights and vest. Saint Thomas looked left along side walk and looked right down side walk and look at the Blood Diamond Gang House. Saint Thomas looked to the human with lots of muscles, dressed in a blood red shirt and black tights and vest, seen, <Which way is South Street?>
The human with lots of muscles, dressed in a blood red shirt, black tights and vest, pointed along sidewalk that goes by the door to The Blood Diamond Club House, seen, <Back that way.>
<Thanks,> seen Saint Thomas. Saint Thomas nodded and smiled <|You mean I have been flowing the wrong way.>
The human with lots of muscles, dressed in a blood red shirt, black tights and vest, smiled, <Yes.> A laugh escaped lips.
Saint Thomas grinned and winked and flowed up side walk with, <Thanks,> flowing in flow wake.
A stream of cars drive pass. The shadow of Saint Thomas is caste upon the building of the bock. The clouds above rumbled and a drop of rain fell upon Saint Thomas's cowboy hat.
Saint Thomas's shadow flowed over a strip club with black window and a neon sign that seen, <Strip Club>; flowed over a cafe with a bar, flowed by a lounge and another strip club with three humans with lots of muscles, dressed in a blood red shirt, black tights and vest, walk out blowing smoke and drinking their drinks (naked humans danced on stage behind doors).
Saint Thomas tipped hat and seen, <Hello.>
The three humans with lots of muscles, dressed in a blood red shirt, black tights and vest, drank drinks and smoked cigarettes pointed and laughed to the another human with lots of muscles who walked out into light.
Saint Thomas looked ahead to the entrance to the Blook Diamond club. Two guards with lots of muscles, dressed in a blood red shirt and black tights and vest, and two huge guns each stood still looking up and down the side walk.
The guard looking along the sidwalk where Saint Thomas flowed, focused upon Saint Thomas and followed Saint Thomas with his pupils along the sidewalk.
Saint Thomas stretched and looked back and seen, the three humans with lots of muscles, dressed in a blood red shirt and black tights and vest, still outside the strip club door. Saint Thomas looked back to the guard starring at him from the entrance to the Blood Diamond club.
Saint Thomas approached the door to The Blood Diamond club.
Saint Thomas slowed flow to stop right before the guard starring at Saint Thomas. Saint Thomas seen, <Does that place have pool tables?>
<Why don't you ask those three guards at the door?> seen the guard.
Saint Thomas skewed mouth on one side and seen, <That is a great idea. Thank you.> And Saint Thomas flowed from guaurd knowing the guard was starring as Saint Thomas flowed from the Door the Boold Diamond club house to the strip club and to the three guards smoking cigars and drinking pints of beer.
One guard facing Saint Thomas followed with site Saint Thomas's flow from door of the Blood Diamond club door to the stip club door and the three guards.
One guard slowly exhaled cigar smoke through nose and pointed to Saint Thomas and seen to all, >Here comes someone.<
The three guards with beers and cigars all turn and watch Saint Thomas flow to them.
Saint Thomas begins to whistle.
The whistles singings in the night and sings to the guards on the corners, the two guards before the Blood Diamond club house door and the three guards before strip club.
<Hi,> seen Saint Thomas, <What are you guys doing?>
One guard seen, <None of you business buddy.>
Another guard seen, <Stop whistling.>
The other guard seen, <Watching stripers strip and playing pinball.>
Saint Thomas look at the other guard, <PINBALL! I love pinball. I am so good at pinball that no one can beat me at a game of pinball.>
<No one,> seen another guard.
Saint Thomas looked at another guard and then to one guards seeing a long drawn site, <Everyone at any pinball game.>
<Anyone at any pinball game!?> said the third guard almost spill his beer on his cigar.
<Yes,> seen Saint Thomas.
<Do you like strippers,> seen the other guard.
<No,> seen Saint Thomas, <Because they will make me want to dance and it is too hard to play pinball when dancing.>
All three guards pivoted head up and down, up and down.
The heads went still and one seen, <I bet you hat I can win you at pinball.>
The three muscular guards flicked their cigars to street and tossed beers upon side walk.
One seen, <I'll by the hat from you sarge once you win it,> as Saint Thomas and the three muscular guards walked through the entrance.
Saint Thomas seen a small sign above the door before he entered, <Blood Diamond Strip Club>. Saint Thomas seen, <|What do I get if get lucky and win?>
One guard seen to other and another guard and looks to Saint Thomas, <Nothing.>
Saint Thomas frowned and seen, <My hat is worth more than that.>
The other guards seen real fast to all, >This is a strip club. Maybe you should strip dance?<
One hit the other, seen, >Shut up,< looked to Saint Thomas and seen, >I will strip.<
Saint Thomas and the one lead the other and another by tables and chairs facing circular stage in center of square room. They flowed by a bar along the far wall behind the stage. The bar empty except for someone playing pinball machine and some one behind the bar.
<Where are the strippers?> seen Saint Thomas. Saint Thomas followed one's flow to pinball machine and to pinball player.
One grabbed pinball player by the collar of shirt and waist of pants and thrown the pinball player into the tables.
Saint Thomas seen, >I could have waited.<
>I couldn't.<
>You first,< seen another guard to all.
>Me,< seen Saint Thomas.
>Yes, buddy, you,< seen other quard.
One flexed muscles, >Now,< muscles expand, tights ripped, >|Or I'll hurt you.<
Saint thomas looked from another, other and one smiling, >Okay, I will play frist.<
>THEN play,< seen one.
Saint Thomas stood afore pinball machines, Saint Thomas looked around club, looked to the guards and then at the pinball table, leaned head to side to look vertical, mouth opened and bit the buttons on sides of pinball machine.
>You play like that,< seen and laughed other guard. All three guards pointed and laughed at Saint Thomas.
Saint Thomas seen, >Yes,< lifted the pinball machine up with mouth and shook pinball machine hitting the guards away knocking the guards out.
Saint Thomas looked around the strip bar. A stripper smiled. The bar tender looked the other way. Saint Thomas put the two guards in chairs around a table, took three empty picture in front of two guards and an empty chair.
Saint Thomas dragged the other guard to bathroom. Saint Thomas took the guard's cloths off, put the cloths on and locked the guard in a bathroom stall.
Saint Thomas, dressed in read and black tights of guard outfit, winked to stripper, and flowed out strip bar to the door to the Blood Diamond Club House.
The night air was cold as Saint Thomas flowed from the steam puff puffing from door of strip club into the night air. The street light still dim lost every battle for light that Saint Thomas wanted the light to win to help Saint Thomas see and look upon both the guards guarding the entranced to the Blood Diamond Club.
The door was not far and was closer each second for Saint Thomas did not halt during the flow to the door. Even after Saint Thomas was too close to flow another way, or try a different plan, and could not see or look upon the two guards guarding the door to The Blood Diamond Club.
Saint Thomas peered eyes between nose and brim of hat to see a beam of light, from the street light behind, caste upon the face of one of the two guards.
Saint Thomas gasped and thought, <|It's a Machiuman of Eden.>
Saint Thomas had heard about the new race of Machiuman of Edens beginning to be born from the plants and animals mixed and mashed to create a new race called Machiuman of Eden.
This Machiuman of Eden appeared to be a mix between a plant and a machine. The plant ... The machine... The being...
The light upon the Machiuman of Edens face blocked by Saint Thomas as he paused before them.
Saint Thomas seen, >|Nice weather we are having.<
One of the Machiuman of Eden guards looked at Saint Thomas and stepped before the door. The guards face that of a human shape, but the nose shapde like a root with twirling end, the ears more like flow peddles. The mouth a thin slit with no lips. The skin: Green in the light caste from above the door.
Saint Thomas tried not to stare at the Machiuman of Eden guard, but could not pull sight and mind from the nose. Saint Thomas, in all the years as a C.I.A. agent, had never seen such an ugly Machimuan. The machine and human Macihumans, the original race where odd enough.
Saint Thomas seen, >|I was told I was needed in side.< Saint Thomas looks up and down side walk and then walks to door.
Both guards stepped before Saint Thomas, seen, >What's the pass word.<
>The password?< seen Saint Thomas.
>Yeah, The password,< seen the other guard, a Human with big ears and a big nose and a beard. The Humans eyes looking like they are going to pop out of sockets.
Both guards stare at Saint Thomas. The Machiuman poked Saint Thomas and seen, >The passwords pal. The password, now. Or you take that suit off.<
The Human gurard looked to Saint Thomas and shrugged, seen, >Orders are order. We gotta do what we are told of there will be no order.<
>Yeah! That's what you always see,< seen the Machiuman guard, >|Do you even see anything else to someone who doesn't know the password right away?<
>Yeah,< seen the Human. The Human looked to the Machiuman then to Saint Thomas. The Human sneered. >|PASSWORD NOW!<
>Or you're dead,< seen the Machiuman. Its snake eyes narrowed.
Saint Thomas looked to the Human and seen, >Do you always let your friend here treat you like an idiot.<
The Humans, looked to the other guard, >That thing is not my friend.<
>What,< seen the Machiuman, >I am a thing.<
The Human laughed and seen, >What else are you?<
>Why you!< seen the Machiuman guard as he lunged for the Human guard, the snake tongue vibrating, the scalled hands grapped the Humans tights at the shoulders.
The Human Blood Diamond Guard hit the Machiuman Blood Diamond's face. The Human Blood Diamond Guard hit the Machiuman Blood Diamond's face. The Human Blood Diamond Guard hit the Machiuman Blood Diamond's face. The Human Blood Diamond Guard hit the Machiuman Blood Diamond's face. The Human Blood Diamond Guard hit the Machiuman Blood Diamond's face. The Human Blood Diamond Guard hit the Machiuman Blood Diamond's face. The Human Blood Diamond Guard hit the Machiuman Blood Diamond's face.
The Machiuman Blood Diamond fell to the ground.
The Human Blood Diamond Guard spit on the Machiuman Blood Diamond Guard and looked at Saint Thomas.
Saint Thomas seen, >I will just go in side and act like I did not see anything.<
The Human guard smiled, seen, >Okay, yeah, thanks. I will. I'll just take him to the bar and pour alcohol over it.<
Saint Thomas flowed on to the landing and stared down the stairs leading down. The walls of stairway hall blood red. The tops of each step black. The halls dim. The candles light flickered shadows of the candle holders long and hook like mounts.
BANG!
The door closed behind Saint Thomas.
Bang echoed.
Saint Thomas looked back at the door and back down the stairs case. The darkness below fadding from red to blood red to black.
Bang echoed.
Saint Thomas flows to wall. Saint Thomas peers and the candle holders.
Bang faded.
The candle holders sprout from walls like hooks. A snake coiled around hook from mount to tip. The snakes head pointing up and mouth open and holding a Blood Diamond.
<|It's real,> seen Saint Thomas.
Upon the Blood Diamond a red candle burned dripping runnels of red wax over the Blood Diamond.
<|The sign of the Blood Diamond.>
As the thought faded, Saint Thomas heard a low sound coming from the darkness below.
Saint Thomas flowed down the down staircase and by the candles casting shadows of hooks. The blood wall seemed to ooze with the descent down.
The sound from the darkness becoming a chant.
Down and down and down Saint Thomas went until he counted eighty four pairs of candle holders. The sound of the chanting became louder and louder and louder.
Saint Thomas flowed upon the top of a T intersection, both directions going down to more darkness and depths and chanting from the top of black steps.
<|Hmmmmmmmmmm,> seen Saint Thomas. Saint Thomas looked up the staircase which was traveled then looked left down stairs. <|Hmmmmmmmmmmmm,> and looked right down stairs. <|Hmmmmmmmmm,> Saint Thomas seen, lowered to ground, tipped hat back.
The chant flowed from both directions. Neither side louder or softer than the other.
<|I may have only one chance to go down,> thought Saint Thomas. <|How to know which way to go?>
The chanting began to become louder. The sounds formed sounds like the English Cant, but these sounds did not end or begin and came from both the left and the right hallways down.
<|Two ways. One might be a trap,> seen Saint Thomas.
Saint Thomas made a, <Hmmmmmmmm,> sound with mouth. The looked up the blood stairs. Saint Thomas flowed up the stairs step by step looking at the candle holders and each step to be sure the next step was not the last. Saint Thomas reache the top of the stairs and stood by the door to the exit of The Blood Diamond Club house. Saint Thomas pulled open the door and poked head out and seen the humand Blood Diamond guard standing by door. Saint Thomas seen to guard, >|I was told by the Boss to come get you.<
>But who will guard the door?<
Saint Thomas laughed and seen, >|WE ARE Blood DiamondS! WHO COULD OR WOULD WANT TO COME MESS WITH US!< Saint Thomas laughed and laughed.
The guard looked up the street and down the street and across the street.
The street and sidewalks void of people other than the other Blood Diamonds.
The guard smiled at Saint Thomas, seen, >Okay!< The guard walked into the club and began walking down the stairs.
Saint Thomas followed.
The door slammed shut with a BANG!.
Saint Thomas followed the guard down the blood steps stepping where the guard stepped.
Once the guard and Saint Thomas stepped to the platform to the two stair cases descending down left and right, the guard stopped, seen, >Did Boss say anything about why I am needed?<
Saint Thomas looked at the guard, >I was told not to ask or answer questions until you arrived.<
>No?<
Saint Thomas pivoted head side to side, >I can not tell you.<
>Okay,< seen the human guard, who began to decend to the right stairs.
Saint Thomas counted to five in the mind then followed the guard stepping where he stepped.
Saint Thomas followed the guard to the right.
They flowed down staircase with blood red walls and the candle sticks with the candle light making shadow hooks on the wall.
The chanting became deeper and deeper. The walls and stairs shook. The shadows shook upon wall and began to dance with the chant. The dancing shadow reaching for both the Saint Thomas and the Blood Diamond guard.
The Guard began to humm with from throat with the deep rumble of the chant.
Saint Thomas began to humm from throat with the deep rumble of the chant shaking the walls.
The chant then flowed from throat and become a high pitched scream.
Saint Thomas and the Guard screamed as they walked down the Blood Diamond staircase.
The scream pierced the protective barrier of Saint Thomas's Cowboy hat. The scream made the shadow retract behind the candles.
Saint Thomas almost flinched because of the pain in side the mind as the high pitched chant was carried beyond the threshold of pain by Saint Thomas's Scream with the Scream of the Guard and the echo down the blood painted staircase hall down, down, down.
The chant then went soft and silent almost like the sound of a wheeze of a human nose.
They walked down and down and down the staircase.
The chant wheezes flowed soft from their mouths. The wheeze the only sound in the staircase hall.
Saint Thomas seen the end of the staircase.
Twenty steps away.
The blood walls going dim.
Ten steps.
The human guard looked back to Saint Thomas. His face grinning and wheezing, wheezing, wheezing in tune with the wheezes beyond the staircase landing.
Two steps.
Saint Thomas followed Blood Diamond Guard to the landing.
The candles blew out.
Everything was dark.
Only the wheezing of Saint Thomas and Blood Diamond Guard and hundred of Blood Diamonds.
Saint Thomas and the Blood Diamond Guard stood at the bottom of the staircase surrounded by hundreds of Blood Diamond Hoods standing in a blood red room all wearing Blood Diamond robes. Candles caste the shadow in a dancing play upon the walls, floor and ceiling with the wheeze of the Blood Diamond chant. Then all at once the wheezing of the Blood Diamond Hoods stopped with the dance of shadows.
Saint Thomas stopped wheezing and smiled. Saint Thomas looked to the Blood Diamond Guard.
The Blood Diamond Guard looked to the Blood Diamond Hoods and then to Saint Thomas and seen, <|Okay, we're here.>
Saint Thomas leaned to Blood Diamond Guard, seen, <You should go now.>
A low rumble, like a hungry stomach, erupted from the center of the Blood Diamond Hoods and raised and composed an audible growl then bark in the English Cant, -Saint Thomas we know who you are!"
<|They know the English Cant,> thought Saint Thomas. Saint Thomas looked to the Blood Diamond Guard, who smiled and slowly stepped away from Saint Thomas, then Saint Thomas looked to the Blood Diamond Hoods, said, „Yes, I am Saint Thomas and I have come to shut down this Blood Diamond Cult Club."
Hundreds of voices echoed laughter throughout the Blood Diamond room. „No," said a voice, "We have brought you here to give you your DOOM."
The word DOOM filled the chamber then faded to a faint whisper.
Saint Thomas tipped hat to the hundreds of Blood Diamond hoods seeing, >If you surrender now, I will not hurt you.<
Hundreds of voices of laughter filled the chamber.
The Blood Diamond Guard jumped on Saint Thomas. Saint Thomas and the Blood Diamond fell the the cold stone ground. Then one after another after another Blood Diamond Hoods jumped on the Blood Diamond Guard and Saint Thomas until the pile is so big that the Blood Diamond Hoods slid to the ground and rolled away from the pile.
After a couple of minutes of jumping on the pile and rolling away, the last of the Blood Diamond Hoods not on the pile stood and pointed and the pile.
The Blood Diamond Hoods wearing an eye patch seen to all, >SAINT THOMAS I COMMAND YOU TO SURRENDER TO THE Blood DiamondS.<
From beneath a pile of thirty Blood Diamond Hoods and one Blood Diamond Guard, like a whimper into the wind, a faint, >No,< could be seen by all.
The Blood Diamond Hood wearing an eye patch laughed, >YOU FOOL. YOU CAN NOT WIN!<
>I have a Blood Diamond,< seen Saint Thomas.
The pile then began to shift and sway back and forth. The Blood Diamond Hoods squirming like a pile of worms. The Blood Diamond Hoods standing on the side of the pile began to jump in the pile screaming sounds filling the chamber with screaming sounds.
The Blood Diamond Hood wearing an eye patch began to hum.
The Blood Diamond Hoods began fighting each other. One Blood Diamond Hood made a deal with another Blood Diamond Hood for help to beat up another Blood Diamond Hood for a share of the Blood Diamond while the other Blood Diamond Hood made a deal with four Blood Diamond Hoods for a fifth of the Blood Diamond.
The Blood Diamond Hood wearing an eye patch hummed.
The Bloods Diamond Hoods began to stop to squirm on the pile and began to hesitate throwing their next punch at another The Blood Diamond Hood.
The Blood Diamond Hood wearing an eye patch hummed.
And all the Blood Diamond Hoods paused and began to hum.
With Twenty still Blood Diamond Hoods on top of him, Saint Thomas couldn't move.
Then from the darkness, the human warrior slave who befriend Saint Thomas, leaped to the nearest shadow taking off his Blood Diamond Hood and threw it over the Blood Diamond Hood wearing an eye patch.
The human warrior slave who befriend Saint Thomas ran over to the Blood Diamond Hood wearing an eye patch and wacked him upon the face.
The Blood Diamond Hood wearing an eye patch fell to the ground and the chamber went silent.
For an instant you could hear only the collective heart beat. Then like the spreading of a disease the thought, >Blood Diamond,< spread through the mass of Blood Diamonds all ran for the pile and Saint Thomas.
The human warrior slave who befriend Saint Thomas tied the Blood Diamond Hood wearing an eye patch and gagged the Blood Diamond Hood wearing an eye patch. He then ran to thepile of Blood Diamonds on top of Saint Thomas and, one by one, knocked each Blood Diamond out with a sap. Wack, Wack, Wack, Wack...
the human warrior slave who befriend Saint Thomas knocked out all the Blood Diamond Guards forming a new pile of unconcious Blood Diamonds.
And there lay Saint Thomas, all spread upon the floor with a big smile upon the face. Saint Thomas seen, >Have any diamond dust?<
Saint Thomas and the human warrior slave who befriend Saint Thomas laughed.
Then the human warrior slave who befriend Saint Thomas seen, >We have purfied Eden of Eden again.<
Saint Thomas seen, >Yes, Yes, we did. And now we must take these blood diamonds to the C.I.A. Jail and seek all the other Blood Diamonds and squeeze them dry.<