''Take the kids on a trip they said, it would be fun they said.'' Troy grumbles out as he runs around the inside of an old office building trying to get as much distance from Crowley as possible.
''Hm, I hope the Hiragi family finds that stove I left on by accident.'' Troy adds as he runs past a small built in kitchen within the office building completely forgetting about Crowley for a moment.
''Where are you little livestock?~'' Crowley sings out as he busts through a wall with a large smile on his face that screamed pain.
''I'm not little!'' Troy shouts back prompting Crowley to spin at a ninety-degree angle and swing his sword blowing up the wall Troy was behind.
''Only an idiot gives away his position like that.'' Crowley comments with a smug smirk on his face as he approaches Troy who rubs a small amount of blood from his new head wound curtesy of a rock.
''Thems fighten words!'' Troy shouts out his Irish accent becoming extremely thick making Crowley raise a brow and stare at him.
''An Irish man in Japan? Odd.'' Crowley comments to himself as he watches Troy spit on the ground and spin his axe in hand a grin coming to his face.
''Us Higgins have a way of getting around, I think it's because of my da's charm.'' Troy says making Crowley huff out a laugh and fill his weapon with blood.
''Maybe so, but for now I'll need to kill you if you don't mind.'' Crowley says happily making troy comment about not having much choice in the matter as Crowley runs towards him.
-=Meanwhile with Yuu and Yoichi=-
''I still don't think it was a good idea to split up.'' Yuu mutters as she pulls Yoichi with her towards the rest of her squad's location.
''Well, I think Troy knew the power level of the vampires there and decided it would be best to split their combined power.'' Yoichi says only to be ignored by Yuu who continues to grumble to herself.
''Found you!'' A female voice screeches out as Tahm busts through the wall directly beside Yuu prompting her to toss herself and Yoichi to the ground to avoid the vampire who in turn slams into a set of tables.
''Stay still!'' Tahm shouts running towards Yuu with her maw open as if to take a chunk from her skin prompting the girl to draw her weapon and use it to block her arm from being bitten.
''YOICHI SHOOT THE DAMNED THING!'' Yuu shouts desperately as Tahm munches on the weapon trying to bite through it.
''R-right!'' Yoichi stutters out summoning Gekkion and aiming it at the female vampire before letting an arrow loose prompting Tahm to remove her chompers from Ashuramaru and bend back in an unnatural way to avoid the arrow with a sicken crack of her spin making Yuu cringe at the sound.
''Calm down Tahm…'' the vampire mutters to herself as she leaps away and begins to inspect Yuu and Yoichi with a critical eye.
''Kill the archer and close in on the swords man…'' Tahm mutters to herself quietly as she grabs the handle of her weapon behind her back and pulls it from the leather bag to show a rather fancy looking morning-star (mace type).
''Alright humans, I need to keep the swordsman alive…but the archer can die!'' Tahm says loudly with a grin on her face as she pounces towards Yoichi who stumbles backwards and knot an arrow.
''Get back!'' Yuu shouts as she leaps in front of Yoichi and deflects the Morningstar with a cringe on her face as she feels her bones rattle painfully from the attack.
''Yoichi!'' Yuu struggles out prompting Yoichi to aim the bow over Yuu's shoulder and fire an arrow once more at the vampire prompting her to remove her morning-star from Yuu's weapon and duck all the while kicking Yuu's feet out from under her making her scream out in surprise and leave Yoichi open to a strike from Tahm.
''Got ya!'' Tahm says exactly as her morning-star connects with Yoichi's wrist with a sicken crunch and a shout of pain from him signaling she'd managed to break it.
''Yoichi!'' Yuu shouts out in anger seeing her friend falling to the ground holding his broken wrist in pain.
''Get away from him!'' Yuu shouts angrily as she stabs her sword into the thigh of the distracted vampire making her shout in pain and jump away in instinct causing Yuu's weapon to tear through the skin making the wound worse.
''Alright human…want to play it rough uh…?'' Tahm says through gritted teeth as the wound refuses to close much to her annoyance and continued agony.
''I doubt you can even walk with that wound.'' Yuu comments as she picks up Yoichi and makes a break for the closest exit leaving Tahm to shout profanity at Yuu as she attempted to stand and follow after them.
''Yoichi are you okay?'' Yuu asks in a worried tone as she lays Yoichi back down. ''I-I'm fine Yuu.'' Yoichi manages out trying to ignore the pain from his broken wrist.
''Clearly not.'' Yuu says back as she lists Yoichi's arm up to inspect the broken wrist making him hiss in pain. ''Sorry.'' Yuu apologizes to Yoichi who simply waves it off with his other arm. ''I-It's fine.'' Yoichi says through gritted teeth.
''Hopefully everyone else is doing better than we are…'' Yuu says looking out a nearby window at the sound of weapons clashing in the distance.
-=Troy and Shinoa squad=-
''I gotta say…for only two vampires there unbeatable.'' Jin says rubbing sweat from his forehead as he looks at Horn and Chess who only smile cockily at them.
''There working in perfect synergy, it's unlikely we'll find an opening unless we make one.'' Mitsuba comments rubbing a small amount of blood from her cheek from a slash she'd gotten from Horns lance gracing her skin.
''Chatty bunch aren't they?'' Chess asks looking up at Horn who shrugs in response before speaking. ''You're not much different at times Chess.'' Horn says with a smirk on his lips looking at the smaller vampire who in turn just huffs glancing off to the side.
''Don't get distracted, we can't let them break our front line.'' Damien says back at the rest of his unit glaring at the vampires ahead of him as they made idle talk.
''He's right, we need to keep them off the back line and find a way around their defense.'' Shinji says seriously as he readies his scythe for another round of attacks from the two Progenitors.
''Well our back line only consists of Mitsuba, she's the only person with a ranged attack…'' Slavana says keeping her eye on Horn and Chess who seem to be waiting for an opening to attack Mitsuba.
''I say we surprise them, it's the only way we'll get out of this steel mate.'' Jin says looking over at Shinji who raises a brow. ''What do you mean?'' Shinji asks making Jin smirk.
''We rush them; I doubt they'd expect it.'' Jin says so only his unit could hear looking back towards Chess and Horn.
''I don't have any other ideas…'' Shinji says with a frown before sighing. ''Well time to see how this tactic works.''
''If I die I'll kill you somehow Jin…'' Aeris mutters looking at Jin who only grins before charging towards Horn and Chess with the rest of the unit at his tail causing Horn and Chess' eyes to widen not expecting the sudden move.
''Back!'' Horn shouts grabbing Chess and jumping away as Mituba's axe(?) lands on the spot Chess had been occupying moments before.
''They abandoned their formation, I can't predict what they'll do!'' Chess wines out as she leaps away from a punch from Jin's gauntlets allowing her to kick him in the face sending him stumbling backwards.
''Jin don't try to attack blindly look for an opening!'' Damien says using his Tonfa to block Chess' whipping from hitting him in the face and allowing it to wrap around his arm and begins to pull against her strength.
''Easy for you to say, I'm not the most patient man alive.'' Jin mutters standing back up and leaping towards Chess and planting his gauntlet into her face sending her back with a shout of pain and into Horn knocking them both into a nearby wall prompting the unit to follow after and ready a follow up attack.
-=With Troy=-
''Jesus, what do they feed you?'' Troy pants out ignoring the several cuts and wounds around his body as he looks at Crowley who only smirks holding the wound on his neck closed.
''Hm, I'd ask the same, it's been a while since a human managed to injure me in such a way, an extra inch and it would have been fatal.'' Crowley says as his blackened blood makes its way past his fingers and begins to stain his uniform.
''I'll have you know I eat lucky charms.'' Troy replies trying to draw out the talk as long as possible to allow the strain on his body to dissipate.
''Lucky indeed.'' Crowley says removing his hand from his neck wound allowing the blood to gush out freely. ''Well I'll need to end this quickly or I'll bleed out.'' Crowley says running towards Troy who readies his axe similarly to when he'd managed to wound Crowley.
With a grunt Troy moves his axe up blocking Crowley's attacking causing him to slide back several meters before leaping forward swinging his axe at Crowley who ducks under the attack and uses the hilt of his sword to hit Troy in the chest making him grunt in pain feeling two ribs crack but musters his strength to punch the Progenitor in the face momentarily stunning him allow Troy to back away getting Crowley out of his guard.
''I'm impressed; a lot of humans don't use their fists as weapons these days, they rely a lot on their weapons'' Crowley says placing his hand into his mouth and pulling out a broken tooth allowing a new one to take its place.
''What can I say.'' Troy replies before spitting blood onto the floor next to him with a grin on his face as he takes a small box out of his pocket.
''Give me moment, I'll end you rightly in a moment.'' Troy says throwing a pill into his mouth and swallowing it as Crowley laughs at Troy all the while.
''End him rightly? When was the last time I heard that?'' Crowley says to himself getting the small joke about medieval combat.
''Probably from a manuscript about sword fighting techniques.'' Troy comments breaking Crowley from his moment of nostalgia. ''Hm, let me just take the pommel from my weapon and end you rightly.'' Crowley says with a small chuckle having enjoyed the small joke.
''Well this was fun and all but I need to finish this up.'' Crowley says not noticing the demon tattoo's appearing on Troy's skin. ''Yep, seems so.'' Troy says a small grin coming to his face as he readies his axe again and runs at Crowley who in turn runs towards Troy ready to strike at his open side.
Crowley and Troy's weapon meet making Crowley's eyes widen in shock finding himself being forced back by the sudden force of the strike. ''You're stronger.'' Crowley comments as Troy swings his weapon around him forcing Crowley to bring up his weapon and block the attack causing the force of the blow to force him out of the nearby window and onto the ground below.
''The pill only gives them a tiny boost of power nothing to worry about.'' Crowley repeats Ferid's words with a flat look on his face seeing he'd been lied to as he fixes his broken arm into place while looking up at Troy who flashes him a bloody grin before walking away leaving Crowley to fix his broken spine.
-=Meanwhile midair=-
''Can you believe it Mika? We're finally going to see Yuu again!'' Ferid says excitedly only to be ignored by said vampire making Ferid sigh and pout looking at Mika with fake sadness plastered on face.
''Oh come on don't be like that it's rude.'' Ferid says trying to get Mika to talk to her only to be ignored once more.
''I don't believe he wishes to talk to you Lady Bathory.'' Noah Magdalene says looking towards Ferid who only chuckles. ''Noah, I didn't notice you were onboard! Maybe it has something to do with your height no?'' Ferid asks patting Noah's head making him grumble at the 7th Progenitor.
''I know I wouldn't…'' Surtr mutters looking at Ferid with a frown on his face hating the way Ferid was acting.
''Oh aren't you all just sweeties.'' Ferid teases grabbing Noah and Surtr's cheeks and begins to pull making both of them growl at her.
''Don't you think it's rude to mess with the lesser Progenitor's Lady Bathory?'' the 10th Progenitor Fuola Honte asks looking up at her faction leader who in turn giggles letting go of Noah and Surtr. ''I believe you're right Fuola, but I'd appreciate if you did not tell me what to do young lady.'' Ferid says making Fuola gulp and nod with a quick 'yes ma'am' coming out of her mouth.
''Great! now where was I?'' Ferid asks herself causing Mika to sigh and get Ferid's attention. ''Oh right I was talking about Yuu.'' Ferid says with a snap of her fingers.
''Well seeing as you won't talk about her what about Troy?'' Ferid asks causing Mika to snarl at her. ''OOOooo someone's still sore about that day.'' Ferid sings out with a devilish grin on her face.
''I'd prefer not to talk about him.'' Mika says darkly only to be ignored by Ferid who continues anyways. ''I mean, he did leave you all to die by standing there, though he insured his own survival that way, if he'd have moved I'd have probably killed him.'' Ferid says pacing around as the vampires in the room stare interested in the small story.
''Did you see the look in his eye when he ran in to save Yuu? It made even poor old me freeze for a moment.'' Ferid says in an overdramatic voice.
''What do you mean 'made you freeze' for a moment?'' Noah asks curiously to Ferid stopping her little speech. ''Hm? Oh yes he had the eyes of a demon for a moment.'' Ferid says making the vampires within the room's eyes widen.
''A demon?'' Fuola asks prompting Ferid to nod. ''After the event I decided to do some research about him and found out he was the second in line to the Higgins name, the one that ran the United Kingdom from the background before the virus attacked.'' Ferid explains to the group.
''And after a little digging and a trip to Ireland I found something interesting, it seems that Troy was an illegitimate son, In a way, he born from a sperm donation given by the head of the Higgins family to a woman possessed by a demon.'' Ferid continues to rattle on much to the mounting anger of Mika.
''He was meant to be an experiment to be disposed of but it seems the lady of the house took a liking to him and they ended up keeping him, to this day he's the only Higgins without brown hair and grey eyes, a trademark of the family, instead he was born with dirty blond hair and cobalt blue eyes.'' Ferid says reading off the details she'd found in Ireland remembering them perfectly making Fuola speak up.
''Sounds like a person of interest, if we come into contact with him do we capture or kill?'' Fuola asks prompting Ferid to look at her with a grin on her face. ''We capture him of course! He's too powerful to let him just die.'' Ferid says walking over to her seat at the end of the room. ''Now hold on kids, it seems this is going to be a bumpy landing.'' Ferid says putting on a harness that was attached to her chair prompting the over vampires in the room to do so as well.
''Oh and if any of you tattle tale about him I'll be sure to drag you under the bus as well.'' Ferid says with a dangerous tone in her voice prompting the vampires in the room to nod. ''Now them let me give you a small brief on our little mission.'' Ferid says pulling out a small bag and taking a clip board out of it.
''Our queen wishes for us to destroy a large horseman of John that has made its presence known, apparently it's a large danger to the main human settlements that house most of the remaining population of humans and she does not want them destroyed seeing as that'd be a problem if our current livestock up and die on us, so we've been tasked to kill it Yata-yata-yata something about honor for the queen and we should meet the 13th Progenitor Crowley Eusford down as he was sent to scout the area.'' Ferid reads with a bored tone to the vampires in the room.
''Got it?'' Ferid asks prompting everyone to nod and her to smile and throw the clipboard behind and into the wall with a small bang. ''Things are sure to get more exciting with this, I have a feeling the JIDA are doing something about the horseman as well.'' Noah says prompting Ferid to nod.
''Yes, I'm hoping they do send soldiers to deal with it, after all we'll all be rather hungry after dealing with it and Japan's been rather dull to us recently. I'd love a little war with the humans to break out.'' Ferid says all to happily to Noah who only sighs and leans back into his chair knowing it was going to be a long day ahead of him and his fellow vampires when they landed.
''Oh and I forgot to mention we're not landing normally.'' Ferid says pulling a small button out of her sleeve making Fuola sigh and swear. ''Fuck…'' Fuola mutters as Ferid presses the button causing the back of the plane to explode and for the pilots to lose control of the plane as it plummets towards the ground.
-=On the ground=-
''It's about time they arrived.'' Crowley mutters seeing the flaming A-130 military aircraft plummeting to the ground at high speed towards him. ''Seems things are going to get more interesting around here.'' Crowley mutters as he walks out of the landing path of the aircraft while thinking about how the parts of Ferid's plan were already coming together.