this is a tribute to the lads i work with
all you lads who haul steel cable for the companys that give as the black gold
you work long hours and no complain
how you put your backs into all the work the company gives you to do
i salute you
no grumbling or moaning like me no worrrys about the days going by without a break
i salute you
you put all shirkirs to shame with the hours and game you play
i salute you
lads you are a credit to the name of the company
i salute you

many years ago i lived in a small village in the heart of cornwall
it was not a happy place
my father was based in plymouth at a royal navy base and used to commute between there and home when he was not at sea
now while we were living in the village all sorts of strange things happed
mysteyriouse lights would apear over thhe village
the air would get heavy and the place would always have a feel of evil about it
as a sensative i could feel the pure evel and badness in the village
in cornwall there is a tradition of black magic and paginisim going back to ancient times
and this village where i lived was so steeped in it even in the time i was living there
in the cemetary the graves going back to hundreds of years have a skull and cross bones on them and are always kept tidy and free from weeds
when one day i asked the caretaker of the cemetery about the markings on those particulare graves. he looked at me and with a strange smile said those there graves are the resting places of the black gaurdians
i suddenly felt a deathly chill hit me just as he said that
i could not get out of the cemetery fast enough
one day as i was walking past the village post office i stopped by the door something drew me to look inside
now the post office was owned by an old couple and were known to be a little strange some what exantric
they asked me what they cold do for me and i felt very scared when they spoke
i just said i was just looking and went out of the shop
at certain times of the year around mid winter and early spring there would be a very opresive feel to the air and it was bad
so bad in fact that even my mum could feel it
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i will continue this story in the very near future
this story is based on an actulal village in cornwall it still exists too this day and is a thriving comunity the events that will be portrayed are only slightly embelished for the reality is much stranger than fiction

now this is something i am getting fed up with
i am up every morning during the week at 5am
so during the weekend when im not on call
i would expect like most [normal] people to have a lie in
BUT !! not me im not [normal]
i still get up at 6 am satarday and sunday
it would seem my own body clock doesent like lie ins
i was an early riser as a kid and it used to drive my parents nuts
but even though i am in my 40s i still get up at an awfull hour in the mornings
hopefully when i end my carrer in the oil industry i will start to wind down and get some rest
but im not holding my breath on that one
another thing that gets to me and i may be talking crap on this but hay nothing new there
is my weight!
im 10 stone in old money
what that is in metric i have no idea
i thought when you hit your 40s you were supposed to gain weight and keep it on no matter how hard you try to shift it
my job involves a lot of manual handling and hard slog
for hours on end
my team mate and buddy is putting on weight and getting heavy and we both do the samer job !
he is also built like a gorrilla and is 3 years older than me
so what gives
i have no medical problems and am very healthy
oh well i suppose i will gain more weight when i finaly retire if i live that long
so untill next time
keep smiling

 

years ago i used to date a wpc
ok i love a lady in uniform
this particulare lady was a dam good copper
but she had a severe attitude to neds
she was a sweet lady out of her uniform but a compleat bitch in it she hated crime doers
i dated her for over 6 months before she got transferd to glasgow
now her aberdeen mates had a name for her
THE GESTAPO BITCH
as in i see the gestapo bitch is on duty tonite i wonder what prat is going to be brave enough to fuck with her tonite
dont get me wrong out of uniform she was a total lady but in uniform she was a right monster
i think when she got transferred to glasgow it suited her
more neds to terrorise

if you are reading this old friend
hope you have had a good carrer

this is sheer brilliant
a co worker of mine was transfered to another section on monday
he has so far not made a good impresion on his new team mates
he has already refused overtime [fair enough ]
he thinks all his new team mates are ass holes
but this is a cracker
he was caught sleeping on a fluke of one of the big anchors my company hires to the oil rigs and today was caught sleeping in his forklift when he should have been working
this guy even when he was working with me always dissapeared and was never around when you needed him
some how i dont think he will be with the company much longer
this guy is so lazy he makes a sloth seem like a speed runner

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It was two years before I fully recovered from the pain of what Paul had done to me
In that time I had moved on in my life I had started a new job which I was to do for the foreseeable future
I was advised by Allan to take a well earned break away from Aberdeen
So I decided to go across to Ireland for a break
I went walking along the coast and came to a small village
I booked into a small b and b for the night
And went for a drink in the local bar
As I entered the bar I felt the presence
I went to the bar and I saw her
She was a typical Irish lass with red hair and a look that would melt a snow man
she poured me a pint of the black stuff and also reached behind the bar and made sure I saw the handle of her sword I just leaned over and said im no in the mood for a fight today lass maybe some other time
As the night wore on I had quite a few drinks so I got a wee bit drunk. Well as drunk as an immortal can get anyway
I headed to the b and b at the end of the night as I needed to get my weary head down
When suddenly I heard the dreaded challenge
I am Eileen McGonagall and I challenge you immortal
Shit I though that's all I bloody need a dam hot headed Irish head hunter
That's when instinct took over I drew my sword and battle commenced
She certainly new her craft she had me on the ropes a few times so to speak
I asked her if she was older than she looked
Are ye telling me I look old yah blasted Scotsman?
Well as old as a hag I replied
Bad thing to say to an old warrior like her
That just pissed her off big time she really made me go for it
Jeez she was so cute when she was angry I started to think if this was not a real challenge I could fancy her
Well the swords rang out for ages never really giving each other ground or getting the better of one or the other
It slowly dawned on me that either she did not have the killer instinct of some one who was determined or her heart was not in to take my head
I decided to take a big risk and pray my instinct was correct
I lowered my sword just a bit and stopped fighting and prayed like hell the next blow from her would not take my head
Eileen's sword came flashing through the air and stopped just at my throat
What the hell are you playing at she screeched
I lunged at her and caught her in my arms and planted a big kiss on her sweet lips
I looked down to see the edge of her sword at my next most vulnerable spot
Oh shit I had just made what I thought was a big mistake I was about to become an eunuch or so I thought
Enough of the fore play Eileen said and grabbed my hair and gave me the biggest thrill of my life
This was to be the start of a friendship that would span many lives and generations

paul came at me with a speed i had never encounterd before
god he was fast !
his swordsmanship was so good i was taken totaly by suprise
i shouted why paul ? what made you this way?
why are you so full of hatered?
at the same time i was defending my self .
his blade was flashing and sparks were bouncing of my own blade at the ferousity of his blows.
i hate you and all your kind you are scum.
and i will wipe you from this earth.
what the hell? it suddenly dawned on me that paul had hated what he had become .
but why did he hate me so much ?
the childhood hatred that we feel we grow out of dont we?
as i was trying to think of the ansewrs to these questions i was desperatly fighting for my own life .
he was good i was only just maneging to keep my head on my body .
the hatred in pauls eyes was so intence i wonderd if he could actualy see me. or was he acting on instinct alone.
suddenly i fell onto the ground i used my own trick of swaping my sword into my other hand .
but he was prepared for that and thrust his blade into my sword arm .
the pain was intence but i knew i had to block it and move fast. or my life would soon be over
his next blow came with inches of my throat. and if i had not turned at the last minit he would have taken my life.
as it was the edge of his sword cut deep into my neck
with blood spilling out of my many wounds i was losing the will and energy to fight .and paul could see that soon he would have my head .
as i was holding my self up on a piller i maneged to ask him .why paul being immortal is wonderouse why do you hate our kind so much ?
why he shouted ? why ?
because your kind are beyond human! you are an abomination ! you are satens own children. and i am the lords own messenger of death .i have been put on this earth to wipe you all off it .and to send you all back to the pits of hell where you all came from in the first place
thats when i new
paul had become a religouse fanatic
but you are one of us as well i replyed you are an immortal as well.
so does that make you an abomination as well?
no ! he screemed i am better than you!
i am the lords cleaner i will cleans the world of your filthy stain on this planet .
paul was totaly insane
i tried to keep him talking to get him to tell me how he had died .
and to tell me who had been his mentor.
i fell of the cliffs at thurso beach during a walk one day he told me. it was a 100 foot drop as you know !
there was no way i should have survived that fall but i did .
no one found me i just came around after hours of being in a very dark place
soon after wards a man who called him self issac camme to me and taught me the ways of the immortals .he preached me sermons of goodness .and he told me that him and i were gods cleaners . we were put on this earth to take you and your kind out .to clean up this planet of your filthy stinking kind .
great i thought he had been found by a bloody religouse nut. and had passed on his hatred of the immortals onto paul .
because he hated what he had become himself .
i asked what had happend to issac deep down i think i knew .
i killed him paul shouted he had taught me every thing he new and was of no further use to me. so i ended his stinking life. and sent him to the pits of hell. where his soul will be forever in torment and he will pay for what he became.
with that paul struck what i thought was going to be the final blow but he missed .
his blade hit the piller instead. and stuck .
i raised my sword and plunged it deep into pauls body hard .
i thrust the blade so deep in it came out his back .
as paul fell i got off the piller. i had only so much strenght left. and i had to end this before i collapsed
i raised my blade and brought it down in pauls neck ending his sorry life .
what happend next was unexpected . the power release from paul was diffrent. the mist came as normal but there was singing and music in the mist .
it was as if the innocent immortals that paul had taken in his zest had been finaly set free .
i was hit by a light so strong and hard my eyes hurt.
i also heard a voice saying
thank you my son you have done well .
i also saw my beloved amanda in the mist. she smiled and blew me a kiss as the mist went
the quickening was the most powerfull yet.
i returned to my flat drained but at peace with myself the first time since i had lost my beloved amanda

for one whole year i tried to get paul to face me to either end my torment or for me to take my revenge and end the hatred in my heart once and for all
but he was content just to bait me never staying long enough for me to challange him or to challange me
he wanted to prolong my agony as long as possable and to make me suffer for his nastiness
but as we got into the early new year i had an unexpected visitor
yes you guessed it my old friend allan returned
i new it was him as soon as i walked into my flat he had picked the lock cheeky sod
as soon as i walked in i sensed another immortal and drew my sword in preperation for a confontation
put the sword away lad its me and i have no intention of taking anyones head
well my heart swelled up and i started to cry
jezus it had been so long since i had the company of a true friend
he let me get it out of my system and gave me a whisky
i then asked what he had been doing since we last met
just the normal fighting playing and taking a few heads i also went on a sabatical to renew my energy and faith in the world
i told him about the last year and about amanda
allan asked me a bit more about paul and asked if i new his mentor at all
to which i had to reply no
all i could tell him was he was good and very skilled and full of hate and i did not think i had the strengh nor the energy to beat him in combat when the time came for us to finaly meet
i think you and i have to see some one to prepare you for this one allan said
2 days later allan took me to a chinese restarunt in aberdeen as soon as i walked in i felt an immortal
allan intuduced me to his freind sia yan
allan explained to sia about my problem and the rogue immortal baiting me
sia looked at me and immeditly went into the kitchen 30 minitis later he came out with a meal that smelled fantastic
he then told me that over the next few weeks i would be eating at the restaraunt as the meals he was going to give me were to help my inner soul
and he also explained that he would teach me a few oriental tricks of sword play that would help me with my fight with paul
for 3 weeks i trained and ate at the end i had felt a new peace in my self
i might also add that i had not seen paul during that time
i think the presence of other immortals around me kept him at bay
a week after my training i went looking for paul
i took over 4 days to finaly find him and he was very suprised when i stood accross from him in a deserted ware house
i shouted out in a very strong voice
i am stewart alexander mckenzie i am an immortal and i challange you
i gave him no choice he had to fight his hatred of me was so intence you couls see it on his face
his feelings of pure hatred of me was etched in lines on his face and his eyes were wild
this time there would be no comming back from the dead for one of us
and i dam sure i was going to be the winner

i had spent a few years with amanda and she and i had become so close but as is the nature of immortals things always come up and we have to go our seperate ways or something happens
a challange or we have to die and move towns or countrys you get the idea
what happend to amanda was so cruel and it turned me insane for a long time
i was out side my parents house one day talking to dad in his garden when i suddenly senced an immortal
amanda was in my parents back garden so i new it was not her i could feel
but try as i could i could not see the other one
amanda felt it as well as she came out to see me and to see if she could see the other one
i had a feeling of dread come over me and i mentioned to amanda this immortal is dangerouse there is something not right with this one
who is he after she asked me ? you or me ?
i dont know but watch your self ok ?i told her
a few days later amanda called me to say she had a run in with an immortal and he was baiting her
twice she had a challange and twice she had the other immortal run off before the fight could finish
what the hell ? i asked that is not our way what is he playing at ?
i dont know but he is good and dangerouse he fights like a man possesed and he does not speak apart from the challange
does he say his name i asked ?
no but he did say you are next and it will be soon

a few days later i went looking for amanda as i had a bad feeling about that day
i found her in a lone car park south of the town center
she was in a fight with the immortal
i had no choice i had to stay out of it and not interfear
amanda was fighting for her life
this immortal was good and he was fighting with a lot of skill
but ! there was something very familier about this man
suddenly i saw amanda go down and the immortal stand over her as he took the stance to kill her for good i suddenly reconised who this immortal was and screemed as he brought the blade down on her neck
as he took her quickening and her power he was laughing like a mad man he was totaly insane
his stance and his laugh and his voice i reconised with dread and my fear came up to my throat
this immortal was some one i had years ago taught a lesson for beating me up with his gang
it was paul cambell
when the power had faded he came up to me and laughed in my face
i took your women ass hole and soon i will take your head
it will be payback time for the uter humilation that you put me through as a kid
you deserved to be beaten up you deserved to be kicked and punched
you are a dick
you were then and you are now and soon you will be a dead one as well
with that he took off
i could not move my hatred of this man and what he had done to my first love fixed me to the spot
i was insane with grief
i voued then that as i had done many years ago i would do so again
i would take that little shit out once and for all
i went back to my parents house and something must have shown on my face as my mum and dad asked what was wrong
i just said amanda had been involved in a tragic accident and she was dead
it was then that my mum and dad both said something that shook me to the core
they asked who took her quickening ?
what i could not believe i heard right
what did you just say ? i asked
they asked the name of the immortal that took her from me
dad then told me he had nown from the early days that i had become an immortal and he was aware of my training with allan to help me survive
who told you what i had become ? i asked
did allan?
my mum then said a group of people had come to tell them that i would change and i would start doing secretive things not long after i had come back to life in the hospital all those years ago
they called themselfs the conclave
dad also told me he new of my first challange as mum sensed my change when i came home shortly afterwards
mum has her own tallents she is a sensitive and an empath
she new right away of my powers and what happend as i was giving off a glow
ok the cat was out of the bag now
so i told mum and dad the immortal was paul cambell
my old enemy from school that had died and came back to take his nasty hatred out on decent people and i was his number 1 target
you need to be carfull dad told me he has become powerfull in his hatred
talk about the dark side
sheesh what dam movie was i in ? star wars or highlander
yes i did go to the cinema and i had to laugh at the similer things that both movies had with real life of us immortals
well paul started to bait me for nearly a year
he would turn up at my place of work or make sure i saw him in town and he always made sure i knew he was carrying his sword
i was getting so uptight and angry i wanted it over i wanted it to be open and i wanted his head

well in 1986 i moved to aberdeen
my dad had retired from the milatery and had got a job in civvy street
i had also got a job in aberdeen as a supervisor in of all things an industrial laundry
not the best job i admit but it was a job and would do for the time being
my training with allan had ended some years previously and allan had left thurso to go on his own journey
by this time i had gone from a skinny lad to a well developed young man both through my job making freezers and with all the training i had done with allan
i was praying that i would not have to face immortals in aberdeen
but as allan said we are more in number than you would believe we walk amongst the normal humans and we dont go noticed
i was in aberdeen for around 3 years when i first senced my first immortal i was in the belmont bar which is just on belmont street just of unions street
when in walked 3 young women 1 of whom was immortal
she senced me as soon as i senced her as well
being the young lad a iwas in those days i noticed she had a fantastic figure and what a smile
however i also rememberd allans warning not every one is nice under the beutiy and women immortals are just as visciouse as there male counter parts and will take a mans head just as easy as they will take a womens
i went up to the bar and intuduced myself
hullo im stewart what can i get you ?
and under my breath i said to her and not my head
she said hi im amanda and i have no intention of taking your head yet
well we got on so well that when her friends decided to move on she asked me to come along with them to the club they were going to
i spent a good few hours with her and her friends that night and when it came to going home i asked her if i could see her to a taxi
i would rather walk home if you dont mind will you see me safe and home
now being an immortal and a few drinks inside me i was a bit cocky and made a pass at her
she just smiled and let me see her home
as we were walking home the conversation turned to what we were
i got a bit scared as i did not have my sword to defend my self if she decided to make an open challange
talk about stupid or what ?
drink in wit out as they say
she did not have her sword with her so no way could a challange take place
i asked her how old she was thinking i have no idea how an immortal ages she could be over 100 years old and only look my age
i was 20
she just laughed as if reading my thoughts and replyed im 26 and i have taken 4 heads in my time as an immortal
3 men and 1 women all a lot older than me
now i was scared as amanda did not look as if she could take on 1 old immortal let allone 4
the oldes she told me was 300 years old and had tried to ambush her in a car park 1 night but being a canny lass she was waiting for him aparently she and the old immortal had prev history
so who was your first challenger she asked me
when i told her his name her eyes shone
that basterd she exclaimed he was one sorry bitch twice i tried to take him out but he would not take on women he was either scared of women or a raving poof
i told him the memories i had of him from the quickening was he was straight but only took mens heads as he believed there was more power in a mans quickening than womens
what crap amanda said we are all the same
im glad you managed to finaly take him out as he was a creep and a cowerd
we then got talking as to who our mentors were i asked her if she had ever met allan
she had heard of him but never met hi she asked if i had met her tutor roberto
never heard of him at all but i am a new immortal so i have not come accross many of us yet
well being at her house by then and in a very happy mood with each other we did not want the night to end
and it did not we spent the night together and most of the next day
next chapter an old enemy apears back in my life and more dangerouse than ever before