A huge fissure ripped open at my feet and a 3 metre tall woman with pure white skin and very red lip with two short fangs protruding from the upper one. Huge furry bat wings slowly spread out from her body with a huge, white claw coming from the upper edge of each wing. She had a black snake skin dress and a neclace with one red ruby attatched. Her hands and feet were huge balls of brown bear fur with four long claws dripping green fluid. And her hair was bushy and shoulderlength but made of shadow. It writhed and moved like it had a mind of its own and it seemed so insubstantial.
"Master Mormo sent me. Son of Hecate. If your mother had paid more attetion to her friend our master and less on you perhaps we would be helping you not hunting you. " she gargled ," We are the Mormolykeia or Mormos, helpers of Hecate the vampire creatures of the underworld. And Mormo is our king who bites bad children in their sleep. With you dead he and hecate will have time for eachother once again. But as I also serve Hecate I am obliged to apologise and can only wound you and not kill. But this can".
I was transfixed. She was frightening but beutiful. She was the first race of vampires. Then I heard a horrible rumbling noise and I looked up.
That was my mistake.
I saw a huge jumble of meteors crashing down towards me and the Mormos. As they landed I felt something hit me in the chest. I fell bacward and pounded into another house. I looked up and there was just a smoke filled crater. As it cleared I saw her again. She had next to her a huge pile of pillows. Golden pillows.
Solid gold. Somehow I had survived the first one. I stared as she mouthed the words "Pillow Fight".
And she launched another golden missile. I ran. I ran faster than I ever have before. I jumped and dodged and the pillows missed me by a hairs breadth. I turned and ran back from where i had come and picked one up. I thrust it through the air and it struck the Mormos around the face wiping off half her lipstick. She pulled a mirror from nowhere and screamed ,"You idiot. Do you know how long it takes to get that perfect."
"An hour", I yelled back.
"IT WAS A RHETORICAL QUESTION", she yelled.
Well she may be vampire chucking golden missiles at me but these missiles were pillows and she yelled and got upset about make-up. She was a girl inside. I had something to use against her.
This would be where those meteors came in. It turns out that they came from one constellation. Cancer the Crab. The crab used to distract Heracles in the battle against the Hydra. He kicked it into the sky and it became one of the 12 zodiac signs. Of course over all these years he had got a bit bigger than the first tiny crab sent by hera.
The claw slammed into my chest and sent me flying. The vampire was riding a giant crab whose claw was twice the size of me. I flew over 3 rooves from the punch and landed in a small garden with a small cage containing 3 fluffy bunny rabbits...
"He's dead", the Mormos said.
"Don't be so sure", a voice said loudly. I walked between two houses up to her and cancer. I had my silver violin in one hand and a wicker basket in the other. She picked up a pillow and chucked it straight at me. I swung the violin so the sound box struck it straight in the middle and the gold pillow richocheted into her stomach.
"Oof", she sighed ,"You will regret that!".
The crab swung its claw at me and I leapt on top of it. It tried to shake me off but that just made it harder for the Mormos to aim. Then a pillow struck the claw with a loud crunch and Cancer let out a huge squeal and momentarily stopped moving. I took my chance and ran along its arm towards its head and got on top.
The mormos gasped but I just swung the violin and knocked her to ground. She was startled enough to give me time and I climbed under the crab. I remembered my mothers words ,"the Greek Gods are real", the only name I remembered was Hercules from the disney show. So I made a quick prayer to Hercules who unknown to me was God of Strength which happened to be just what I needed. I swung my violin at the beasts underside and although Hercules couldn't give me the strength to hit it back into the sky he gave me just enough to do what I had to. The huge crab tipped over and trapped one of the Mormos's legs underneath it. "You are going to leave", I said. "Why should I", she grunted struggling over the beast.
"Because you are a girl and if you don't". I moved down the beasts belly towards the beak. I took one end of my violin in confidence that the metal would hold and used it pry open the beasts beak. I used it like a splint to make sure that it couldn't close. Then i picked out from my wicker basket the three little rabbits. I dropped them into beasts huge mouth but he couldn't swallow. They just sat there shivering. "What are you doing", she yelled.
"Leave now or the bunnies get it", I yelled.
"I will leave", she muttered defiantly, "But not because of those dumb yet oddly adorable rodents. You see as a working Demon I have services in the underworld. And I am in service of the Gods and not against them. And thus if you did destroy me I would return to my original duties. Yet if I allowed an innocent a.k.a anyone who does not fight back and is not my intended target I would be stripped from my post and sent to Tartarus for many years. And as that beast was summoned by me I am forced to take responsobilty of his actions. So if he eats the bunnies I get fired".
"What the hell", I laughed.
"You should see the paperwork the Furies get".
"Okay then", I said.
"We will meet again", she said.
"I look forwad to it".
"Goodbye, son of Hecate", she said.
"Who is Hecate", I yelled but she was already faded away into darkness.
However when I siad Hecate something did happen. My violin became a long bronze spear. The crab then had to open it's beak even further with the added length and I wrapped my legs around the spear and reached down for the rabbits.
That was when the bronze began to bend. I stuffed the rabbits up my shirt and tucked it in so they wouldn't fall out. I grabbed one end of the spear but the uncentered weight made it fall with me. I tried digging the spear into his throat to stop myself but to no avail. Then I stopped. I had flipped it upside-down so I would have to try to climb from here if I was to be digested. I tried stabbing the walls but they were coated in bronze and my spear tip bounced off harmlessly. So I tickled it. It spat me out pretty quickly but a sneeze that big also works for some launch force. So the crab tipped the rightway up. It charged at me quickly and I rolled underneath its belly and jumped on its back. I ran along its spine and dug my spear into its eye. Golden Blood seeped from its eye and the giant Crab dissolved into dust. It was picked up by the breeze and flew towards the sky. Left where it had been where dosens of huge lumps of rock which slowly floated off the ground then spun even faster into the air. I sighed and began to walk away.