New Guests Part 2

Chapter 231-1

New Guests

Part 2

 

Mr. Stringum was busy talking on his car phone to answer our questions to what in the hell happened back there and who our new house guest really is or the new plan he was putting in place. Sometimes he could be so irritating when we want answers and he is still busy wheeling and dealing, hearing him say on the phone. “What do you mean it is still being investigated? I understand that… Fine just get it done. Each day it is costing me money as it sits there the way it is. Fine… you do that.”

He slammed down the car phone; Dad was about to ask our questions, getting the one-minute finger and picked up the phone and started another phone call he grumbling. “I hate Sundays, it’s like the entire planet shuts its self down when I need things moving without delays because it is the weekend.” He quickly returned to his phone call as we pulled up to the High Bishops estate in Salt Lake seeing the other limo ahead of us with the Drake Family waiting for us. Dora opened the door to greet us, as herself while the High Bishop attended to church business back in Heber. And everyone else followed including the Drake Family as well as our new guest the Walters family.

She invited everyone in which was basically everyone that lived on our little private mountain. Stringum wanted to make sure that it was safe to go back before we did. Stating that they had caught two more bad guys slipping through the fence, but again he didn’t elaborate other than to say they didn’t get far since he had tripled security. His plan was to have us moving from place to place for the next couple of days until he could iron out the kinks. Meaning finding out who their bosses were that are trying to kill us. The answer was never why because it stood to be we were the richest and the most powerful.

Taking us down or align with us could be a big benefit. Landan had already moved Sparky here, indicating at the moment this was just a dropping off point to change our clothes, for some of us, have nice lunch and go over the basics. Knowing it would take too long to check in and get settled in when Stringum wanted us on the move and not sitting like wild ducks on a pound waiting to get our a*s shot off.

The Drake family and the Walter family sat quietly in the living room staring at each other. Neither one of them said a single word to each other, as we waited for Stringum to revile his new plan being that Drake family was his new guests and the Walter family were basically homeless or in limbo.

Dad got out his clipboard that he had flour plan of each of the rooms we had and what we could do and couldn’t do to make everyone comfortable. Mom and Dad were in many ways alike in regards to my Downing parents when accepting the fact we always had room and no one was ever turned away.

Sparky quickly came back in with Stringum at his heels and quickly removed his shoes like everyone else, he did as a habit. Even the Walters family and the Drake family did so out of respect for us. Stringum and Dad took lead as Mom and the girls passed around a plate of sandwiches and ice cold sodas and a large plate of cookies, that they had made a few days ago. Wanting us to eat them all so they wouldn’t go stale on us.

Everyone said thank you having Mom and the girls nod as they too took a seat in the main dining room of the High Bishop estate as our body guards lined up against the wall or left us to make sure we were safe. Which seemed ridicules being inside a large fortress that it would take a large army with tanks to get to us? 

The dining room was full and cozy with fire in the fireplace, with all my friends and their parents inside our dinning room plus our new guests. Stringum said.  "Now that everyone is here. I like to welcome our new guests the Walters and the Drakes. The Drake family is here because I have asked them if they would like to help with our currant problem. Mr. Coldwell and his buddy Harry Jackson as well as Mr. Tate and several others just like him. I am sorry to those that find any of these men highly respected, but trust me they are anything but the monsters that they truly are. I have a job to do; which is to catch people abusing the sacred rituals and bring them to the Holy Prophets so they can be judged for the crimes they are committing that the church finds unacceptable.

“I have been hired by the church to look into these crimes, but I can not do it alone. I can not simply be placed in all facets of the church without tipping off those people that could be responsible; like your husband Mr. Walters, who has tried to kill his entire family with the help of Mr. Coldwell and his friends. So that brings me to the Drake family. Since you all knew that it was a show we had cooked up to solve or delay some of the problems with the people we are currently dealing with… and with the High Bishop on board to help stop these people for turning our church into a killing frenzy… fighting over who is going to align their houses with us.

“It was decided we needed more of an inside job. I thought the best way to fight magic is to find the best person that has been in the business of magic and illusions like we had just seen today. That could be very convincing. So I hired the best magician I could find that owed me a big favor. The one and only Lance Burton, who travels around the world packing them in every place he goes.

“Yet we had one problem which was he didn’t have a family nor a wife, or least married long enough to be considered married. So I had asked Loretta Hastings who is my daughter being married briefly with her mother when I lived abroad in China during the war. That has just finished her doctorate in Sociology which is the study of human social behavior; who was looking for adventure and a chance to use her schooling in a real setting. She too was still single.

“Now in regards to Calvin, his father served with me during the war, he was killed by protecting me and our men, giving us a chance to escape. I had made him a promise that I would watch over his son if anything happened to him. He has no mother or family left alive other than his aging grandmother. Who is deathly ill… he was staying with a dear friend of mine. Me being a widower and always traveling, I couldn’t take care of him as a father should at the time, but I know nothing about raising boys.

“With me traveling place to place, and with Arthur taking much of my wife’s time. I have talked with Mr. Carrion and his wives as well as his husband Mr. Vincent’s they have agreed to adopt him so he could have full-time parents and I can see him anytime I want to. Yet to everyone else outside these walls he is the son of Mr. Drake and his wife Loretta.

“They are only married for convince and given a new identity to play the roles we need. Mr. Burton will be traveling a lot because of his current commitments elsewhere and will be only here long enough to help investigate who inside the church to who is abusing the ritual rights… at their level… being as you know as magistrates or deep into black magic and have witches and warlocks working for them. My wife has a gift in that department and comes from a long line of a voodoo priestess, but being as she a woman and more so a black woman. She wouldn’t be allowed in their secret meetings are invited to any of their private clubs.

“We needed a man and a man that could fight magic with magic, a man we could trust and help root out the people we are after. I have made contact with their sister churches and they have asked me and my team they have hired to bring back its people to them or eliminate the threat of those that are involved of these murderous crimes, against its people.

“Those that we find will be investigated and their positions in the church removed. They will be given three choices, for those that are abusing the sacred rites that are involved in killing a person in cold blood without permission of the church; endangerment of a child that could lead to their death or maiming them. Discrimination by color or ethnic background and physical abuses towards anyone as well as kidnapping of any kind.  The three choices they will be given are; death, or death in prisons, or wander in the wilderness and never to be seen again, by anyone.

“Those that help us will be given mercy and the more help they give us will determine how much mercy they will be entitled too according to the Holy Prophets of this church. Those that do very little will be given very little mercy. I say this because of what has happened in regards to the Walters home being burned to the ground with their own family inside it.

“Yet is true Holy had nothing to do with it, but she didn’t warn her family that they had been targeted to die, because they were seeking to align their houses with the Carrions and they had taken in the Philip’s family and Dr. Sars into their bosom as our true God has told us too. 

“Yet you were told today… that today’s show was just that a show, but in truth. It was more real then you would believe. That when I and the High Bishop and I and my wife Dr. Sars prayed last night. We were each given a vision of what our true master wanted. He had already made the arrangements that these people be brought here before the church so they can witness his true power. There was nobody behind the smoke; these people did not arrive by plane or car overnight. They were brought here by our master. It was truly him… you heard him and saw him…and heard him speak.

“The magic was real, the only truth I have stated who these people really are, that when I called them to tell them they had been chosen for this mission. They had already been contacted by our master and were told to make themselves ready at a moments notice. They were in church like we were, in three different locations across the globe. Even with my resources, it would take me the entire day to pick them up and bring them here. There was no way I could do so in a matter of hours and put together what we had all witnessed today.

“Like you, I was at the hotel where we were staying. Like you, I had no idea what or how our master was going to pull this off. I, the High Bishop and my wife Dr. Sars were given a vision and envelope that had arrived an hour later telling these people you see before you were chosen to help us.

“The fact I knew them personally only means that our master had agreed that these people were worthy to be called to the positions they are told to be in. I have sacrificed much for the church as a blessing to my true God. He is allowing me, to be with my daughter and my best friends son and giving him a home where he can be loved and grow to his full potential where as I can not provide him what he truly needs; a father and a mother and brothers and sisters.

“Arthur can not be his brother; he has no capability of showing love and devotions. He can not even take care of a gold fish or stand the fact of having someone else in the home. Nor can he be trusted to be alone with anyone other than me or Dr. Sars. It's our burden we must bear until we can find a place or someone that can take care of him.

“No, what Calvin needs is a real family. He deserves to be loved and raised by parents and a family that can love him. Which is why I had asked our true God to bring him here, so that he could have a family where as he was alone, in the world. Our God has shown me that this was what Calvin needed.

“Even my daughter Loretta now has grown into a beautiful woman needed a chance to prove her self worthy to our true God. It was agreed upon that Lance Burton and my daughter Loretta would be married to each other undercover and Calvin would be their son. To demonstrate that our true God does not discriminate against people regardless of color or ethnic background so they would have no choice to either accept these people into their church like the other churches have or get out entirely.

“It has been decided that Carrions and the Vincent’s will take the Walter’s family in until one of the 4 new houses are available and Calvin and my daughter as well as Mr. Burton while he is here. I will then purchase the Walters burned out home and rebuild it and resell it …and the proceeds will go to the Walters to do with as they like.

“For those that would like to help with the funeral costs of Mr. Walter or the building cost of the home, please see me afterward. In truth, I rather burn the body and scatter the ashes over a pile of horse s**t for what he has done to his family in the name of the church, but the choice isn’t mine to make. And if I had the choice I would do the same to Mr. Coldwell instead of him being free to wander the wastelands as our master has requested and drive a metal sword into his heart.

“Yet it must be as our master has said.” Stringum motioned forward Tony and he handed him a big yellow envelope that was bulging; Stringum said as he opened it. “In this envelope has an envelope with your names on it and some spending cash as well as a hotel within the city where each of you will be staying at in random order. The idea is to split you up so those that are chasing us can’t find us in large numbers and wipe us out. Some will be going home and will be leaving the following day or a moment’s notices.

“Again the idea is to keep them guessing, considering we are only aware of Mr. Coldwell and his best friend Mr. Harry Jackson. Who is to be believed to be meeting with the Holy Prophets, but I have been given information stating he isn’t. In fact, right now he stargazing with Mr. Coldwell and they have organized a number of the old Queen’s guard to find you and kill you. They do not know we are on to them and we want to keep it this way; hoping to draw them out into the open since we have been unable to track them.

“You will be all placed under guard at all times to ensure your safety, but they will blend in with their environment, you will be lucky if you even see them until you need them. As I have said we want to draw them out and the only way to do this is to put a target on your back. We want you to spend this money so that those know you have it. Spend it on yourselves, spend it on other people.

“We do not care, In fact, the more you spend the more we like it. You will find more when you arrive at your destinations with a list of things we want you to buy, and people we want you to give it to and the amount. We need to show that we are aligning our houses with many of those we find worthy that our God has chosen that are worthy. Now quickly finish your lunch and get changed for those that need to keep appearances in the LDS Church. Those that don’t I will see you in the study within the hour for your finial instructs, good luck, and good hunting.” He smiled and left the room leaving us to our mysterious envelopes.