A/n: Let's Play, M-Rated, here we go!

Blood Rage

As Negaduck slowly opened the door he heard the sound of feminine sobbing. In the purple gloom he saw the back of the woman's head of bedraggled hair as she sat on the side of the bed facing the window. She was Gosalyn's size and her hair was the right length and about the right colour in the ghostly dark.

"Gosalyn?"

Hearing him, the woman startled, and straightened, looking up at the window as though she thought he'd called from there.

"Gosalyn," Negaduck repeated, pushing the door firmly open. There was no way she wouldn't guess he was at her door now.

The figure turned and with a blood-curdling shriek she vaulted clear across the bed. Before Negaduck could react, she'd grabbed him by the cuff of his cape and hurled him across the corridor.

There was a spark of pain in his back telling Negaduck that he'd hit the wall. He started to get back up and with two hands the hellish monster raised him clear off the floor.

"Vampire!" Negaduck gasped, seeing the familiar set of canines amidst the row of shorter jagged teeth. He reached back for the baseball bat fragment but the woman's stranglehold tightened. There was an empty blackness in her eyes and she leaned forwards to bite him.

The vampire jerked and the grip on Negaduck faltered. She looked at him with an almost puzzled expression before shrieking as her body turned grey and then fractured into a fine dust cloud.

"Hello, Negaduck." He heard Gosalyn's voice and a moment later the dust had settled enough that he could see her. Her glossy red hair was short in a bob and she had the other half of the baseball bat in her hands. "Welcome to the Jungle."

"Now you are definitely Gosalyn. Not mine-."
"Of which I'm sure you're eternally grateful."
"She would never wear that outfit." He commented on her tight purple T-shirt, green pullover and brown slacks with a blue medical band around her left wrist. You've really let yourself go."
"Oh, I'm sorry; did the spare tyre say something?" Gosalyn sneered at him, "What are you doing in Ashdown Asylum, Negaduck, are you nuts?"
"I'm not the one who lives here." He sneered back at her.

"Nice comeback, did your mother help you with that one?" Gosalyn retorted.
"Not really. She's been dead over twenty five years."
Gosalyn folded her arms and stood back from him. "It's so sweet that you're counting."
"So much spirit; you're starting to 'bug' me." Negaduck gritted at her in warning.
"Oh, it must hurt knowing that I don't care even a teensy bit for you." Gosalyn returned in a patronizing voice.

Negaduck paused. "For a mental ward inmate you're pretty snappy. A place like this ought to have whittled you down to size."
"Oh, get on with it, old man; I've got places to go and so many more things to kill."
Negaduck blinked, "You killed one of those guys back there, right?"
"That was personal." Gosalyn defended darkly.
"Sure, kid. So what did the other one die of?"
"Brain haemorrhage. He was a good guy. I miss him. Let's go, I'm done here."

Gosalyn turned away from him and headed smartly towards the exit.

"No you're not!" Negaduck called after her and stopped her in her tracks. "You, little miss, are missing the key to that door." He pointed at the metal exit door.

Gosalyn's face was livid when she spun around to face him.

With her teeth clenched, Gosalyn looked ready to jump him just like the vampire had a minute ago.

"And you'll just have to suffer the wait because I'm not leaving this place without my chainsaw blade!" Negaduck added to drive home his argument.

The death look disappeared from Gosalyn's eyes. "The jerk swallowed it. Darn, where's an axe when you need one?" Gosalyn turned and headed up the corridor. "Why is it that when I have my axe I don't need it and then-?"

Negaduck stepped into the shrieking vampire's room and started his search with the closet. He opened it and heard glass shattering in the room next door. The cupboard was bare so Negaduck crossed to the chest of drawers and pulled them open. They were empty too. Negaduck looked around the room again. The drawers in the table were too small.

"What's the matter with you, Negaduck?" Gosalyn interrupted from the doorway. "I've broken a window and done a home autopsy and you're still standing there looking pretty."

"If you're so smart why don't you find the blade?" Negaduck growled at her.
"Hmm, let's see. Is it about half a metre long?"
"Yes."
"Does it have jagged metal teeth along the edge?"
"You know what a chainsaw blade looks like!" He quacked at her. "It's metal and flat with jagged teeth!"

"Just a long shot." Gosalyn folded her arms and leaned against the doorframe, "But have you checked for it under the bed?" She asked him in a sickly sweet sing-song voice that reminded Negaduck too much of her father.
Negaduck knelt down and snatched the blade from under the bed, "You know if that wasn't helpful I'd be-."

"So you've got your blade, Negaduck. Now if you don't move your sorry carcass, I'm-leaving-you-behind-with-the-dust-bunnies!" Gosalyn quacked and stormed out of his view.

Negaduck stepped out from behind the bed and hurried to catch up with Gosalyn.

"Look, kid, I don't know what your issue is, but I'm the one in charge." He told her as she twisted the key in the lock.
"Then push off and stop following me around like a geeky space cadet. Sheesh." Gosalyn shoved open the door.
"Geek!" Negaduck spluttered furiously.

"Oh, yeah, sorry, that was a bad call. Geeks are up at the professional end of the dork range and you're more on the dweeb side of dork." She twisted on her foot and breezed out through the open door.
"Why you redheaded-!" Negaduck growled and chased after her into the stair well.

"Shush." She hissed and held out her hand in warning to quieten him.

Negaduck looked around the stairwell but couldn't see anything. He listened harder and heard something scuffling down below. "There are two storeys and a basement level." He said quietly.
"Shut up." She hissed at him, "You think I'd check myself into this building without knowing the floor plan? What kind of moron do you take me for? Come on." She started down the stairs.

Negaduck followed after her, putting the pieces of his chainsaw together as he went. "Seriously, why did you come to this place? Clearly it ain't for the meds."
"Because, Megavolt-." She started to explain.

"I'm Negaduck! Megavolt and I are nothing alike!"

"Sorry, whatever. The reason I came here is because I keep losing it. I came here to try to cool off but they just keep coming for me and keep me wound up like, I dunno, something really twitchy."

She kept heading down the stairs, "You thought that was me on that bed crying, didn't you?"
"The story goes that you lost your whole family in a fire."
"Fire, pfft, yeah, right. That was just a protection ward that went off in Raya's room. It took out about five of the wretches nosing around. It would've really made her day knowing that she got that many-argh!" Gosalyn ended in a yell, "I'm up here, you brain-drains, you know you can just shadow up here to get me?"

Negaduck pulled the cord of his chainsaw and it didn't start. Looking, he saw the tank gauge reading empty. "Darkwing!" He gritted his teeth.

"He's dead, Negaduck, time to get over it."

Negaduck dodged a snatching arm of a body that came out of nowhere, grabbed the wrist and shoved the vampire hard. Negaduck raised his silent chainsaw and belted the closest vampire with the butt. There was a shriek behind him and then a piece of wood went hurtling past him into one of the vampires.

The remaining vampire snarled and started forwards. Gosalyn pushed past Negaduck and with a yell she smashed her fist into the vampire's chest and yanked. Negaduck caught a glimpse of the vampire's heart in her hand before it turned to dust along with the vampire.

Gosalyn let out a sigh of relief and brushed her hands together to wipe the dust off. "That feels better. I'm hungry. Let's go get something to eat." She turned and continued down the staircase.

Negaduck was impressed and followed Gosalyn out of Ashdown Asylum in silence.