Why Doesn't Everything Come With an Instruction Manual ... Part 88

"Don't you have connections all over the place?"


"Yes, but for some reason the underground is rather quiet."


"I was there recently and that place was deserted."


"That is definitely not good."


"What are you trying to say?"


"I'm saying that an empty underworld is the first sign on the calling of the horsemen. If we don't bring back Dracula there is no stopping this."


"Wait a second, Dracula can stop the calling of the horsemen?"


"Yes. The previous horsemen made a pact with him. He was in charge of keeping the earth is some sense of order so the horsemen didn't have to do their job."


"Why would they want to do that? Isn't destroying worlds kind of their thing?"


"I take it no one told you that being a horseman is a one time gig."


"What the hell are you talking about?"


"Wiping out a civilization is not an easy job. Each horseman puts all of his life energy into the destruction and in turn dies with the civilization. The previous horsemen didn't look forward to the void, so they found Dracula and assigned him with essentially permanent babysitting duty of the human race."


"So they essentially didn't want to do what they were created to do."


"They weren't created, but chosen. Much like you and your friends and with Dracula gone you are closer and closer to being called to complete your assigned duty."


"We were never assigned a duty."


"Not directly, but by consuming the energy of the previous horsemen, you essentially took their assignment."


"Well, shit."


"What I'm trying to say in a nutshell is that if you want to survive, you have to bring back Dracula and you have to bring him back fast. The emptiness of the underworld means that the forces of hell have been summoned to prepare earth for your coming. We do not have much time."


"Shit. Why doesn't this job come with an instruction manual or something."


"The employees don't normally get 'laid-off' so suddenly. There's an initiation period before taking a responsibility such as this."


"Dammit. Well, what are we still doing here? We have an apprentice to find."


"I need to turn the lights off first."


*Sign*