03: Vampire Slayer
In the town of Dublin, North Carolina, it was already dusk and everyone was already rushing to get to their homes as if a plague was about to arrive. However, at a park just outside a house next to the lane, two young siblings were still outside playing.
Their mother who had just left her house to get her children back inside the comfort and safety of their own home called out to them, "Julia, Christopher! Hurry up and get inside!"
The brother called out, "In a minute, mom!"
Their mother came rushing out of the house's yard and was hurtling towards them, her husband saw this and yelled out to her and the children in a worried tone, "Quickly, hurry up before they arrive!"
The sister yelled back in a whiny voice, "But I wanna play more!" expressing this desire to play more whilst unaware of the time and the impending danger.
The mother grabbed both her children forcefully and dragged them towards the house; the children were fighting her off at first until they heard motorcycles in the distance.
"Oh no, they're coming, hurry!" Yelled the husband while the mother frantically picked up the pace to get her and the children back to the house.
The motorcycles already reached the end of the lane; these men wore Outlaw attire and were riding Harleys. One of the men looked towards the mother who was desperately trying to rush to the house with her children and then he pointed to her, yelling out "Look boys, we got ourselves some late nighters!" They started cheering and revved up their motorcycles.
The husband was crying out for his wife to hurry up, but the motorcycle gang sped down the lane and grabbed her. She was frantically struggling to break free from his grip while two others grabbed the two children.
The husband rushed out to try to save his wife and children, but with little avail as he was struck by one of the men so hard that he fell unconscious.
The one who knocked him out exclaims "Let's leave him there as he isn't worth our time, but these beauties are fresh meat, let's get them to the lair!"
"Daddy!" cried out the children as they were taken away by the gang, the wife was shrieking and calling out for help as she was being taken away, but no-one answered her as no-one, not even the police could stand up to them because they were not just any normal gang of outlaws.
The mother and children were taken by their limbs, hanging off the edges of the Harleys whilst the outlaws were driving along. They arrived at a wide dark cave outside the town, the thugs parked their motorcycles inside and the wife and children were tied up and gagged with apples in the style of a boar that was about to be roasted on an open fire.
They laughed and taunted at them "Go, on, keep crying! No-one's coming for you, not whole we're hungry!" After one of the men said that, he and his friend's eyes lit up bright red and their smiles began to morph into monstrous forms, revealing sharp fangs, they began to let out inhuman roar and at that point, the woman and her children began to panic like they never panicked before as they now realised that they were now in the presence of monsters.
Then, a voice came from deeper inside the cave, "Such a nice night it will be tonight"
The gang of monsters started looking towards each other "Who said that?"
Footsteps can be heard echoing from deeper inside the cave and the voice continues, "It a shame that I don't have the patience to wait until the moon comes out in full blossom to make this moment more memorable as I am already late for an important meeting thanks to you cretins!"
The gang started looking towards the dark void that was the cave, which was completely sealed off by rocks and Poison Ivy. "Someone is inside the cave?" asked one of the thugs as he was looking closer towards the inside of the cave "How can someone already be inside the cave? It's completely impossible to enter!"
"I am everywhere and I am nowhere" said the figure as he faded in from the dark void of the cave and passes through the Ivy and the rocks with intangible ease, revealing himself to be a man wearing a charcoal suit, red cravat, red duster, wide red fedora hat, white gloves with pentagrams on the back and red goggles. His face was covered in darkness and his eyes were lit bright red circles.
"A ghost?" asked one of the thugs, they all began to laugh "It's just a ghost, what harm could it do?"
The figure began to smile; his monstrous smile can be seen through the darkness covering his face. "Yes, I am a ghost, the Ghost of Death itself!"
One of the thugs started shaking his head while scoffing "Let's ice this dead meat!" they took out their weapons, which were Uzis, pump shotguns and pistols and then started shooting the figure, riddling him with bullets and shells. The figure just stood there as his flesh, body and limbs were torn apart by the bullets and the shells, the figure just kept smiling as they were shooting him.
The figure collapsed in a bloody pile of flesh and the thugs lowered their weapons.
"For a ghost, he sure can be ripped apart easily!" one of them said jokingly and began to turn their attention to their victims when one of the thugs walks over to the figure and whispers in an intimidating tone "Looks like you're going to hafta cancel that important meeting of yours!" but soon after he whispered that, he notices the figure's eyes lighting up again.
Before the thug could react, he and everyone else were suddenly struck by a black ghostly wave coming from the corpse of the figure which rushed right past everyone inside the cave like water down a grate, the wave rushed outside and the figure that was shot to bits not 20 seconds ago started regenerating right outside the cave, looking right towards the thugs with the same demonic smile.
The thugs were alarmed and were looking towards the regenerating figure with petrified expressions.
"Im- Impossible!" the thugs reacted as the witnessed the regenerating monster from outside the cave, who had the thugs trapped inside the cave, right where he wanted them.
"Get the boys! Get the boys!" panicked one of the thugs.
"All right already!" said one of them as he quickly preformed a summoning. After the figure from outside regenerated himself fully, he noticed that he was surrounded by zombified corpses, some of them jumped down from the top of the cave and blocked the way between the monster and the thugs.
The monster, whose face was now revealed, looked around and sighed with disappointment "Ghouls? I came here to quench my boredom but it seems that you managed to succeed in boring me even more, congratulations!" The monster looked towards the thugs and continued to taunt them "You mongrels are all just one trick ponies!"
The back wave from earlier was able to weaken the bonds of the victims so that they could wrestle free from them and then began to call out to the monster for help, but the monster refused to abide them "Why should I help you? You are idiots for being out late at night in the first place; the night is only for creatures of the dark, not for damsels like yourselves."
The thug who summoned the ghouls then called out an order to them "Kill that guy!"
The ghouls then started advancing on the monster, who was reaching into his red duster and pulled out a massive white pistol, he rested his pistol wielding arm on his other arm while aiming at the ghouls and began shooting. A single shot from the pistol was powerful enough to blast a single ghoul dead, he kept shooting rapidly and each shot was a precision shot aimed right at each of the ghoul's foreheads, all the ghouls that surrounded him were quickly dispatched with a single magazine.
The thugs were starting to panic now that all the ghouls were slaughtered by the monster, the monster began to taunt them even more "That only took me 6 seconds, surely you jest."
The thugs were amazed and petrified with fear at the same time "How did he kill them, was it those bullets that he used?" One of the thugs then began to get angry and started yelling to the monster "You think you can just waltz into my town and start shit? You must have some sort of death wish, buddy!"
The monster couldn't help but let out a soft monstrous chuckle at that comment made by the thug and then looked to the gang "Death wish? Please- you're just gum on my shoe, not even worthy to be put on the same level as me, you are fly's droppings compared to me!" the monster then threw a deathly glare at all the thugs "Death wish? I think you are the ones with the death wish for insulting me, you bastards!"
The thug then got even more riled up "This is MY town, I make the rules here and the rules now say that you die!"
The thug then rushes to his motorcycle and fires and revs it up, aiming it right at the monster, he then speeds up and charges right at the monster on his motorcycle "Die, you freak!"
The monster steps to one side while holding out his left foot, the motorbike rammed right into the monster's foot causing it to tip forward, catapulting the thug right into a tree in front of the bike.
"Pathetic!" Exclaimed the monster as he retracted his foot while turning to the lone thug who was struggling to get up. The force of the impact completely wrecked the motorcycle, it was completely crumpled from the front, it's like as if the motorcycle crashed into a speeding truck, but the monster was completely unharmed. The other thugs couldn't help but watch the monster as they were too frightened to intervene.
The monster then grabs the lone thug by his neck and slammed him against the tree. The monster then smirks "Where's that 'I'm a badass vampire who rules this town' attitude now?"
The thug was quaking in severe dread. "N- no!"
The pentagram on the monster's other glove started to glow bright red, he formed a straight palm with his hand and rammed it through the thug's chest where his heart was, it was so powerful that it tore through the tree behind the thug, his blood began to drip from the tree and his chest where the monster pierced him. The thug gave out one final yell before disintegrating into dust.
The monster withdrew his blood stained arm from the tree and turned to the other thugs who were all panicking. He taunted them more. "You and your friend here insulted me by attempting to defeat me with such primitive tactics and weaponry; you'll all pay for that!"
Another thug then began to become irate as his friend was just slaughtered by the monster and started advancing towards him.
"No, don't do it, buddy!" One of the other thugs attempted to plead with him, but he was not listening, he let out an angry cry and started throwing punches at the monster. The punches did land but the monster just kept smiling as the thug was landing punch after punch on the monster. "This is for my friend, you fuck!" He kept on raging and landing more blows on the monster until the monster grabbed the thug's fist with his teeth as he was about to land another punch. Within the flash of a second, the monster bit into the thug's fist, ripping it off and then proceeded to snap his arm with ease.
The monster looked at the thug as he was crying out in extreme pain. "Don't you get it? You and your friends have been trying your hardest to fight me and you couldn't even scratch me, yet I was able to kill your friend and break one of your limbs without even trying! You all are just worthless pieces of shit!" The monster then quickly dispatched the thug.
The thugs then looked to each other "Let's get out of here!" The thugs then attempted to escape but the monster quickly reloaded his pistol and shot all three of them in the chest, killing them before they could reach their motorcycles.
The monster lowered his gun. "You attempted to fight me and now you attempted to run, that proves how pathetic you all were, please rot in agony when you all reach the afterlife."
The monster turned around and began to walk away, the woman and her children were now free, and she calls out to the monster. "Wait!"
The monster stops walking and began to speak in a sharp tone. "Don't come near me, idiot parent!" The woman stopped dead in her tracks while the monster continues "Don't think that I am your white knight or your saviour! I just came here because I was bored, you got yourselves into this mess, so walk home yourselves and watch out for the hungry wolves!" The monster starts walking away and then fades into the mist.
The kids came running "Mommy!" the woman then embraced her children and then they began the short journey back home.
Coming Soon in Hellsing Unity Vol. 8: "12: Melancholy Man" and maybe "13: Devil May Cry 1"