Baltimore: the Curse Bells - Part 4 of 5
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scans_dailyBack in Switzerland, Judge Duvic has extracted all the information he deems necessary from the two teenagers, and is now cleaning up his "tools" (ew, including what looks like a pear of anguish) while giving the pair the last rites. The boy is very much dead, but a gurgle from the girl surprises Duvic, having thought that she'd died like her boyfriend, but he's disconcertingly happy that she's survived the experience. This means, he says, that God has truely forgiven her by allowing her by some miracle to survive her "purification". Her surviving, he says, is a gift and one that hopes to share with Baltimore soon...
Back with the vampire hunters, Baltimore is using an iron bar from the window of their cell to try and escape, having figured out that Haigus is next door. Hodge says that shouldn't they focus on stopping Hitler and Blavatsky, but Baltimore bluntly states that he's spent two years hunting the vampire, and the magicians will have to wait until after he has his revenge. Hodge chides Baltimore for his selfishness, as the Englishman climbs out the window onto the ledge outside. He warns the writer that it'll probably he safer to stay in the cell for now, and that he'll come and free him in the morning.
And for the first time in two years, Baltimore and Haigus face each other, albeit with Baltimore reduced to glowering at the vampire while trying to figure how to get into the cell from the outside. Haigus takes the opportunity to mock his archenemy for becoming such a monster that he's willing to put his personal revenge ahead of stopping Hitler's cursed bells.
Haigus tells Baltimore that he killed his mother while she was in prayer, and that she yielded to him like he was the God to whom she prayed. This only serves to further anger Baltimore, but due to the stones of the ledge by Haigus' window coming loose and falling down the cliff below, he's forced to abandon his plan to kill Haigus and goes off to find another route back inside the Convent.
After Baltimore leaves, Blavatsky comes out of the shadow to talk to Haigus. It seems that since she was created at least partially from his blood, some of the typical rules regarding vampire's apply to her, ie he has a limited form of compulsion over her. However, since she's herself incredibly powerful, his influence has been limited to a voice bugging her to come and talk to him. Haigus tells her that helping out the magician is beneath her, and what she REALLY should be doing it setting him free. Although she agrees that helping Hitler IS beneath her, she did make a promise... but the idea of screwing him over out of spite does appeal to her, so she agrees to set Haigus loose once the ritual has been completed.
Hodge plugs his ears with wax and tears up his blanket to try and block out the sound of the bells, while Baltimore makes his way up into the belltower, dispatching vampire nuns like a lawn mower as he goes up the stairs. Unfortunately, he is again too late, and Hitler's wereowl henchman (don't you just love comics?) jumps him juuusssst before Baltimore is able to stop them.
To Be Concluded...
Back with the vampire hunters, Baltimore is using an iron bar from the window of their cell to try and escape, having figured out that Haigus is next door. Hodge says that shouldn't they focus on stopping Hitler and Blavatsky, but Baltimore bluntly states that he's spent two years hunting the vampire, and the magicians will have to wait until after he has his revenge. Hodge chides Baltimore for his selfishness, as the Englishman climbs out the window onto the ledge outside. He warns the writer that it'll probably he safer to stay in the cell for now, and that he'll come and free him in the morning.
And for the first time in two years, Baltimore and Haigus face each other, albeit with Baltimore reduced to glowering at the vampire while trying to figure how to get into the cell from the outside. Haigus takes the opportunity to mock his archenemy for becoming such a monster that he's willing to put his personal revenge ahead of stopping Hitler's cursed bells.
Haigus tells Baltimore that he killed his mother while she was in prayer, and that she yielded to him like he was the God to whom she prayed. This only serves to further anger Baltimore, but due to the stones of the ledge by Haigus' window coming loose and falling down the cliff below, he's forced to abandon his plan to kill Haigus and goes off to find another route back inside the Convent.
After Baltimore leaves, Blavatsky comes out of the shadow to talk to Haigus. It seems that since she was created at least partially from his blood, some of the typical rules regarding vampire's apply to her, ie he has a limited form of compulsion over her. However, since she's herself incredibly powerful, his influence has been limited to a voice bugging her to come and talk to him. Haigus tells her that helping out the magician is beneath her, and what she REALLY should be doing it setting him free. Although she agrees that helping Hitler IS beneath her, she did make a promise... but the idea of screwing him over out of spite does appeal to her, so she agrees to set Haigus loose once the ritual has been completed.
Hodge plugs his ears with wax and tears up his blanket to try and block out the sound of the bells, while Baltimore makes his way up into the belltower, dispatching vampire nuns like a lawn mower as he goes up the stairs. Unfortunately, he is again too late, and Hitler's wereowl henchman (don't you just love comics?) jumps him juuusssst before Baltimore is able to stop them.
To Be Concluded...
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Date: 2014-07-26 03:51 pm (UTC)I love that kind of "something's horribly wrong, but I'm still doing something nice" imagery.
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Date: 2014-07-26 09:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-26 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-27 03:28 am (UTC)This is now also my reasoning.
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Date: 2014-07-27 03:27 am (UTC)I still think it's damned good imagery, though. Thanks for posting these!