Eclipse of the Soul: The Interdimensional Saga, Book 2 by J.L. Hendricks Page A

opening blind
doors out in the field.
    The new
Hummers also had compartments already installed in the floorboards as well as
under the seats to hold our weapons. I was convinced they had taken these from
some drug kingpin who used them to transport their drugs.
    The
Commander said that he bought them from a used car auction. It must have been a
government car auction. I hoped those drug dealers were all in jail and
wouldn’t be coming back looking for their Hummers.
    The time
came and both squads had split up the search area on their maps. When they left
I had a funny feeling in the pit of my stomach that this wasn’t going to end
well. I just hoped I was wrong.
    The
search started out fine, squad one started a grid pattern search along the east
side of Joe’s Taco shop and went past the 101 freeway. And then south.
    Squad
two went west of Joe’s Taco Shop past Staples Center and then south. We
overlaid a diagram of the sewer system with the streets of LA and only checked
the streets and alleys that had access points down to the sewer.
    We knew
that the area directly around Joe’s was a hot zone, but since we discovered that
area none of our patrols had seen any signs that the rippers continued to use
the tunnels there. The humans from the dress shop, who worked with the rippers,
were being monitored. Early in the mornings after sunrise, but before the
stores opened, a few of our warriors had gone out and set up CCTV cameras to
watch the dress shop from all angles. We hadn’t noted anything out of the
ordinary coming from there.
    After
about three hours, squad two found a group of six rippers dragging humans out
of a night club. They called it in and squad one immediately left their
location to provide back up. I was watching our Hummer feeds as well as Toren’s
pocket cam. Squad two was holding position and waiting for backup to arrive
before they engaged with the rippers.
    That
really ticked me off. They weren’t concerned with the humans at all. They only
cared about getting the rippers. I was yelling at Coven, the squad two leader,
to get in there and do something to help those humans, but he wouldn’t listen.
    I had to
watch as one of the rippers decided he was hungry and pulled a girl to the
nearest alley and drained her of her life blood. I couldn’t hear anything but I
could see the girl trying to get away from the ripper and watched her hit him
and scratch him until she was too weak to move. Squad two just sat there
watching.
    Not long
after, two of the other rippers were arguing about something. We didn’t have
audio but it looked like one of them was hungry as well. The other ripper must
have been telling the rest to not drink any more. I begged squad two to
intervene. But they ignored me.
    Thankfully,
before the rippers could kill any more humans, squad one showed up. They drove
right up to the rippers, jumped out, and started attacking them. With the
element of surprise, two rippers were killed immediately. One ripper corralled
the women into the alley while the other two were fighting the warriors.
    Two from
squad two went after the ripper who was trying to get the women back to the
sewers. I switched to watch their pocket cameras. They followed the ripper and
the women down into the alley and discovered there was another group of rippers
who were watching the entrance. It was now two fae warriors to seven rippers.
They never stood a chance.
    I called
to Lancer to tell him about the other guys, so he sent all of squad two down
the alley and had Maliki and Bender go with them. Lancer and Ash easily
finished off the last of the original rippers. Then they took off down the
alley to engage in the battle there.
    While I
was watching the fight from the different pocket cams, I saw Toren battle with
one ripper while he threw a knife, just like the ones we had trained with
earlier, right at another ripper. He went down. After Toren had killed the one
he was battling with he ran to the one who went down from