WELL PROCRASTINATION WON AGAIN...IF IM NOT PASSING MY COURSES I MIGHT AS WELL BE ENTERTAINING THE MASSES WITH KING AND HIS NEVER ENDING PLETHY OF RIDICULAS REMARKS.
NOW WHERE WERE WE...OH YES THAT'S RIGHT AIDEEN IS ABOUT TO PITCH A FIT ABOUT BEING KISSED BY ONE HANNIBAL KING.
Unfortunately revenge was going to have to wait. A bullet skimmed the top of my head as I gathered my senses and remembered to duck. This was no time to become some random's clay pigeon.
King was at the base of the stairs shooting at what looked to be black shadows in the thick smoke. Whistler hadn't moved but was making use of the higher ground to pick her targets. Damn that girl was a good shot. I watched her hit a black shape left of centre right through the heart then saw it disappear in a puff of ash. ASH! Wait just a minute! Vampires! Goddamnit!
"You have got to be kidding me, haven't I dealt with enough of your kind in the last 48hrs?" I snarled shooting my first shadow in the back of the head.
They were everywhere, black shapes slithering across the floor, around the cars even up the god damn walls! So much for 2 vans! More like 20! Chaos, absolute chaos! I starting shooting through the smoke attempting to hit moving targets left, right and centre, trying to at the very least least incapacitate as many as possible before they reached our position.
"Some help!" I glanced down to see King grappling with three vampires. Shit! I still couldn't see properly to take a shot so close to him, damn smoke! Hadn't these people heard of ventilation?!
I was running down the stairs before my brain even registered the thought. A hand shot out from under the stairs sending me somersaulting down the last few and straight into King and his attackers, all five of us went sprawling across the floor.
I had my Sai out instantly; while King was still getting to his feet I slammed my blade through the visor of a helmet and into the right eye of the first vampire, then kneeling I staked the second one that was out cold on the floor where I had landed on it. I looked up to see King snapping the neck of the third one and then releasing a couple of rounds into the body just to make sure it stayed dead.
Up close I was able to see that they were wearing some sort of space suit that had obviously been designed so that they could move around in sunlight, not exactly inconspicuous but apparently useful for surprise day attacks on vampire hunters hiding out in abandoned factories. Looking at their fashion choices would have to wait. As I stood I realised that King and I had been cornered and cut off from the stairs. Above us Whistler and the doctor were holding their own, creating pile after pile of ash, completely unaware of the somewhat dire situation developing downstairs. We had our backs up against a wall, the stairs I had so gracefully descended moments ago on our left but inaccessible due to an ever growing semi circle of vampires that were quickly closing in.
"Plan?" King asked. He was weapon-less, his shotgun emptied in the first minute and his other two pistols on the floor behind the approaching vampires.
"Just stay out of my way" I hissed and not waiting for a reply I launched myself at the closest vamp. The world slowed down as my body speed up. Moving in a graceful blur across the factory floor, pivoting, ducking, swinging and dodging I cleared a way to the stairs and the discarded shot gun for King. Twisting to keep myself between him and the vampires while he reloaded I flung my left blade at one of them trying to come at me from the side. But the act distracted me from the others and I saw too late one to the right of me raised his gun; he exploded into a pile of ash nano-seconds later. Apparently King was back in the fight. Between the two of us we cleared another five before I felt a hand grab the back of my jacket and yank me back towards the stairs. Reacting instantly I went limp causing my attacker to let go as my weight pulled us to the floor, rolling to the side as I hit the ground I came up quickly onto my knee and flung my sai at him. King let out a bellow of pain, my sai embedded in his left thigh.
"Fuck" he shouted as he yanked it out. I had hit the guy I had just spent the last five minutes trying to keep alive, and boy did he look pissed off. But in my defence I had told him to stay out of my way.
"Aideen, get up the fuckin stairs before Whistler blows us the fuck up" he shouted at me. I shook off my shock, and quickly moved past him towards the stairs.
"And take your mini pitchfork with you" he snapped pushing my sai into my hand as he pushed me up the stairs. We were halfway up when the first explosion went off, knocking us both off balance and pushing King on top of me.
"Move!" he snarled and practically threw me up the last few stairs. The room shook as another explosion went off sending debris flying towards us. King pinned me to the ground, protecting me with his body as parts of flaming car fell around us.
"If you get me killed my Ma is going to be so mad at you" he said pulling me up and hustling us through the door.
THERE YOU GO, A LITTLE MORE TO KEEP YOU GOING.