"Vincent!"
He turns to see Catherine with a needle, a vaccine. She stabs Vincent in the chest and releases the vaccine in his veins.
"I can't let you die for me."
Everything from that point turned into a blur. Vincent felt the prickling in his veins. Senses crashing back. He heard a growl, heard Catherine hitting the ground, but couldn't do anything. He was immobilized; it was a pain he couldn't describe. Trying to adapt to his strengths that were returning to him. Then a clawed hand grabbed him and he flew. Vincent crashed into a wall and fell down to the pavement.
As Vincent lay there, he felt his pulse rising and heard his attacker stalking toward him. Growls erupting from Gabe's throat and he responded. His eyes flew open, glowing and focusing. He arose, veins being filled with adrenaline, claws emerging; he took a breath in. Gabe was getting closer, the enemy getting closer. Vincent snarled and turned around to see his opponent and Gabe responded with a growl of his own.
The beasts charged at each other, Vincent jumped and landed a kick in Gabe's gut. As he landed back on his feet after his attack, he threw a left hook that landed on his opponent's jaw and went for a right hook. Gabe ducked and dodged his fist and as Vincent went for another he caught it and twisted his beastly enemy's arm. Vincent grunted in pain as Gabe twisted him around. Under his grasp Vincent couldn't move and received a fist in the chest. He stumbled back under that blow then felt a kick to his torso, which knocked him back even further.
Vincent felt his back hit the wall and recovers a bit only to see Gabe jumping at him striking a fist into his face. Vincent recovers from the strike quickly before the other beast was making a second attempt to hit him. He ducked down; in turn Gabe's fist met the stone which crumbled under his force. The ADA was slowed down by the wall, during this brief period Vincent gathered his strength. He let out a vigorous roar and with a swift but powerful uppercut, sent Gabe flying across the courtyard. He crashed on a stone pillar and fell down to the ground, stone rubble falling with him. Vincent approached him and roared down at his prey on the floor.
Just when Vincent thought Gabe was out for the count, he recovered and did a swooping kick and knocked him on his back. Vincent was stunned out and by the time he was able to focus he sees Gabe getting ready to thrust an iron stake into him. As the iron stake was coming down Vincent reached for it and tried to keep it from stabbing him. The only thing he was able to prevent was the stake getting something too critical, but Gabe still got him. The stake found its way to Vincent's lower, right abdomen. When the stake pierced him he roared in pain and he struggled to get the stake out grunting in pain. Gabe had him pinned down though snarling down at him.
Gabe's growls started to sound like he was filled with delight. Vincent tried to sit up, still struggling to overpower the first generation beast. He could only budge the iron stake so much until Gabe asserted force again and Vincent was steadily losing strength. Gabe then twisted the stake; another howl of pain filled the courtyard. The twist of metal left Vincent on the floor again breathing heavily, trying to ignore the pain. His blood was pooling below him and he felt it touch his hand. He sensed his wound closing around the iron stake; he had to do something quick. Breathing in deeply, Vincent gathered what strength he had left and let out a vicious roar at Gabe. Luckily the roar made his adversary flinch a bit so surprise was on his side. With all he had left Vincent shoved Gabe and managed to send him flying back.
Gabe's head hit a stone wall and he grunted in pain, he was stunned. While he could Vincent ripped the iron stake out, which also tore through his skin healing around it. It was a hellish tear and he let out a pained growl and was left panting. Vincent was on his hands and knees gaining his strength back. His blood was dripping to the pavement. He strained to look at Gabe, who was also trying to recover shaking his head. Vincent snarled, with his anger fueling him, he grasped the iron stake.
Vincent quickly stumbled to his feet struggling to keep his ground. He looked down weakly, seeing a pool of his own blood. He managed to step forward toward Gabe. Once he was standing superior to his opponent, Vincent let out a huff and struck the iron stake against Gabe's arm and clearly broke it. Losing his support, Gabe fell to ground letting out furious growl trying to beat back the throbbing pain. Snarling he reached for his broken arm trying to snap it back. Vincent prevented him by a swift kick to the head, knocking him out.
Vincent suddenly felt light-headed and staggered back and dropped the iron stake. After a while of breathing gradually he was able to stand his ground, he shook his head trying to focus again. Looking back up and focusing on Catherine seeing she was waking up. Vincent stumbled to her and fell to his knees as he reached her. Catherine sat up shocked; her back against the car Gabe flipped. He slouched over, his breathing erratic, which steadily he calmed down. Being close to her, his breath turned steady and his wound closed up. He weakly looked up at her, back to normal.
"Vincent, you are so pale." She gasped, clearly worried. Looking behind Vincent she saw Gabe knocked out and even farther a pool of blood glistening. Catherine made the connection and knew that it was Vincent's blood. He almost fell over, but Catherine managed to keep him upright. Vincent's eyes were fluttering, trying to focus. There was no way Catherine could move him so she comforted him.
"We are not getting out of here with you like this, just relax. Once you are up to it we'll make our way out of here and fight another day." Catherine said to assure Vincent. He looked up to her eyes and nodded.
"Yea...just let me…catch my breath." He weakly stated, trying to calmly breathe. He was gaining some color back. Then both of them jumped, hearing a deafening snap. They turned to see Gabe grunting, snapping his arm back. Catherine got up to her feet quickly and grabbed her gun from her holster. Vincent was still down; he was trying to force his adrenaline to spike up. She heard his erratic breathing, and wished she could calm him. Except she knew she would not win alone against beasted out Gabe.
Growls sounded below her, Vincent forcing his beast out. As Gabe arose so did Catherine's pistol aimed at him. Squeezing the trigger she landed a shot in the beast's shoulder. Gabe's shoulder was knocked back. He looked at his wound briefly and snarled at Catherine. Chills ran down her spine as Gabe started to make his move toward her. She shot another bullet but the snarling beast dodged it, continuing his advance to her. Jumping in the air, Gabe was readying to strike Catherine with his claws. Vincent heard Gabe's growls behind him and sensed the beast's intentions. Quickly, Vincent got to his feet and enveloped Catherine in his arms. Those claws ripped through Vincent's clothes and found its way to his back leaving a horrible gash. Catherine felt his weight shift on her a bit, hearing a growl pushed through his teeth.