CHAPTER 4 The Devils Daughters - A Darker Fate Sealed

The desert sand turns dark with Cora’s blood,
as crimson stains the dry and dusty mud.
Belle holds her sister close beneath the moon,
and prays the fading light won't end too soon.
A native healer walking on the way,
steps out from shadows of the desert grey.
He lifts the fallen Viper from the sand,
to guide her safely to his tribal land.
Inside his home he treats her tearing chest,
with burning sage and roots from mountain crest.

She softly breathes, though weak she must remain,
while Belle and Sadie ride to face the pain.
They gallop fierce into the iron town,
to kick the door of Warren’s office down.
They breach the room to find the evil there,
who greets the angry sisters with a stare.
He sits on leather, pouring scarlet wine,
and mocks the girl he held in olden time.

"You escaped the stage, my lovely, clever wife,
but Marshal Cain was sent to end your life.
I built this web to watch your beauty burn,
a bitter lesson that you failed to learn."
"You stole my ledger and you learned my name,
and brought my reputation open shame.
You know the secrets of my stolen gold,
and all the lands I brutally have sold."

Then Warren looks at Belle with wicked sneer,
to fill her fierce and striking heart with fear.
"I funded barons on the frontier plains,
and paid to burn your childhood home in flames."
"To make sure that my wicked laws sustain,
I bought the crooked hand of Marshal Cain."
Then Sadie steps ahead, her twin chromes raised,
her fiery hair aglow, her dark eyes dazed.

"You are a demon born of dust and pride,
and there is nowhere left for you to hide."
"You stole my youth, you hunted down my name,
but now your wicked web ends in the flame."
She cocks the iron with a freezing stare,
as heavy tension chokes the midnight air.
But from the shadows of the office floor,
The Marshal bursts with lawmen through the door.

The final showdown starts with sudden flash,
as window panes and heavy mirrors smash.
The wood is shattered by the blinding lead,
the office floor is painted with the dead.
The hidden deputies are swept away,
as Belle and Sadie turn the night to day.
Then Marshal Cain steps out into the glare,
his heavy rifle swinging through the air.

Both Belle and Sadie unleash fury blind,
to leave the vicious Marshal's hope behind.
The Marshal now sinks down onto his knees,
as ruby rivers pool against the breeze.
Now Jessie breaks her heavy iron chain,
and laughs aloud to end her captured pain.
Old Marshal Cain is choking on the ground,
as death and heavy silence settles round.

Belle cocks her steel with freezing, killer grace,
and looks the dying Marshal in the face.
She puts a single bullet through his head,
to leave the cruel and crooked lawman dead.
They turn where bleeding Warren took a shot,
his breath is shallow and the room is hot.
He slumps into the corner from the fight,
his silver rings still gleaming in the light.

"You mock my power, foolish, broken wife,
but smaller pawns were sent to take your life.
My bleeding corpse won't set your spirit free;
the shadow architect still reigns past me."
The Hell Cat giggles, stepping through the smoke,
to end the bitter words the villain spoke.
She jams a red stick deep into his face,
to trap the laughing devil in his place.

The dynamite is shoved inside his jaws,
a sudden end to all his wicked laws.
Then Sadie smiles and lights the short, red fuse,
with nothing left for Warren Blake to lose.
They turn away before the sudden boom,
as flesh and debris shatter through the room.
But through the falling ash and heavy smoke,
a parchment lands where dynamite awoke.

Jessie catches it with a steady hand,
to read secrets she will not understand.
The wax is stamped with crest of high estate,
revealing shadows of a darker fate.
She reads the script and lets out sudden cries,
as burning tears come spilling from her eyes.
An ancient note from years before her birth,
signed by her mother, long beneath the earth.
The past reveals her father’s wicked hand,
the living king who rules this lawless land.

Chapter 5 To Be Continued.....................................