Cam's Bad Day

Cameron woke up on the worst day of his life to the sounds of orders being shouted to his parents. He had just enough time to sit up before his door was kicked in and government agents came rushing into the room, surrounding his bed. He was manhandled out of bed and through the front door with his parents and shoved into the back of a truck. One nervous half hour later, he was sitting in the police station with FBI and Homeland Security officials asking him uncomfortable questions about the explosion and strange lights at his house the night before, all the people pouring into and out of it, and the large machine they found in his basement. He also asked as to the identity of two young women who were seen in the vicinity that night. The first was Snow Tanaka, who had indeed been in his basement that evening, along with her father’s company goons. The second was Opal, who wasn’t there at all. Only…it didn’t look like Opal. I mean it looked like her, but she was kind of an older, hotter sister. She was wearing sunglasses and a business suit, and watching his house.

He played dumb about everything, but he was scared stiff. He didn’t have any answers that wouldn’t lead to them dissecting him, and they were threatening to lock him and his family away for the rest of their lives if he didn’t start talking. In the end he was thrown in a general population cell and his parents were put into another.

Ten minutes later, more police came in, escorting two oriental girls. Opal lead the way, crying and looking confused. Snow followed behind her. Snow didn’t look confused…she looked livid. The Japanese Slayer caught sight of Cameron as she passed, and her look promised death.

Wonderful….

An hour after that, Opal was released. She had a solid alibi, as she was at the Ember concert the night in question. She happily left, but Snow was not so lucky. She was escorted into Cameron’s cell, where he was making friends with the large angry looking locals. It wasn’t five seconds before she had Cameron slammed up against the cell wall and was uncomfortably close as she asked very politely why she was here. He explained….quickly….how they’d taken surveillance pictures and how he’d never have enough of a deathwish to sell her out. She still looked like she was going to break his pretty face when one of said locals came up behind Snow and made a few suggestive comments about her backside. Even as he was being held up against the wall by her, Cameron told the guy to back off. He wasn’t quite sure if it was for her benefit or for the guy’s. Snow’s eyes eeever so slightly cast in the guy’s direction as he laid a hand on her shoulder.

The police hauled the man out a bit later. He was holding the shattered remains of his hand. Luckily Snow got a phone call then and had to go. The rest of the time nobody really came over into the front half of the cell.

She returned a bit later and gestured at the guard to open the door, which he did. Instead of coming in though, she looked across at Cameron.

“Let’s go.”

“Um…pardon?”

“You really aren’t as smart as I gave you credit for, are you? We’re leaving.”

“I’m not sure if they’d love that and all….they seemed to be a bit interested in…”

“My father’s lawyers are very persuasive…and they hold one of the largest military weapons manufacturing contracts with the US government. Let’s go.”

Cam stepped out of the cell and followed her down the hall. “Not to doubt your unselfish motivations….but…why are you helping me? You hate me.”

She stopped for a moment. “Oh I do…but I also hate debts. Consider this payment in full.”

“Payment…for?”

“Ember. My brother lost a contract and significant face because of her loss.”

“Glad I could help?”

The two left and were heading on the outskirts of town on the way to Cameron’s house, when the car was forced off the road. Opal….the older hotter Opal…had used telekinesis to swat it off the road like a fly. Opal casually asked where the resurrection machine Cameron made was. Snow jumped at Opal in her anger and was caught in mid-air. Opal easily…casually… wiped the floor with Snow, careening her off of trees and rocks and beating her to a bloody pulp on anything that was available. Cam stepped up to Opal and convinced her that if she left Snow alive, he’d show her where the machine was, and would help her repair it. With a flick of her wrist, Snow went flying into the forest. Cam was picked up and he and Opal flew to the cemetery in the middle of town, where a man covered in tattoos and a shaved head met them. Evil Lazarus.

The two explained they knew Lilith was close to coming into power, as she did in their time, and they were her slaves. They both wanted to get out of that situation by resurrecting Lilith and draining her of her power, and Cam was going to help them. They explained that Sascha had a doppelganger there too, but she was Lilith’s general, and they were operating while she was…otherwise occupied.

Cam was taken into the large tomb at the center of the cemetery to wait while Laz started his rituals.