Having a much keener sense of smell than Kanon, Henry Maaka caught wind of the smoke first. "Calera, we need to go!" He yelled over the chaos around himself and his family. There had been a couple of instances that he could've whisked his granddaughter to safety but he didn't dare leave the rest of his family to deal with the vampire hunters on their own - he feared that he'd be too hard on himself if his leaving resulted in their getting hurt.
"What?!" Calera managed before finally managing to knock out the hunter that was attempting to stake her though the chest.
Not wanting to scare Kanon, Henry raised his gaze to the ceiling and tapped his nose.
Kanon, however, was more concerned with other things.
"MAMA!"
"KANO-" Karin started at her daughter's cry and turned only to be hit over the head by a hunter that had managed to stagger to his feet.
Elda hissed angrily and dove at the vampire hunter just as a flaming timber crashed through the roof, preventing Calera from following her.
"Is mama all right?!" Henry asked his wife as she rushed back to help him pull a crying Kanon out of reach of the rapidly spreading flames.
Calera nodded absentmindedly, unable to keep her eyes from leaving the sheet of fire between her and Karin. "I saw Ren running to help her just before that thing came down. If you hadn't pointed out the smoke I doubt I would've been as wary - my hesitation saved me."
The couple shared a brief smile before bursting through an emergency exit with a crying Kanon.
_-Embarrassment!-*'
When the spots vanished from Karin's vision and she was able to stand upright, she realized that she was no longer in danger. Ren and Elda were standing over the vampire hunter that had attacked her, but Elda was the only one with blood dripping from her lips. Something else was wrong though...the air felt stuffy and thick and smelled like burning things.
"Big brother, grandmother, we need to leave," Anju announced as she and Silviu suddenly appeared through a steadily thickening haze of smoke. "The building is on fire. Silviu and I will lead you out."
A fire? Where?! Karin panicked for a moment but Ren slung her over his shoulder and started to jog away from the bright, flickering light behind them.
"Shh." Silviu suddenly hissed and quickly directed them to the side just as the last of the vampire hunters darted through the smoke, goggles and gas masks in place in order for them to hunt their quarry more efficiently.
No one relaxed their guard until they were safely away from the burning building, and even then they tried to keep the amount of coughing to a minimum. Maybe that was how Henry, Calera, and Kanon found them - it wasn't like they were making any other sounds that might attract attention.
"We can save the family bonding time for later," Elda's large, bright eyes glanced around the group for a moment, "but the important thing right now is to figure out if everyone is here. We aren't out of the woods yet."
Karin looked up from holding Kanon close and frowned in confusion. "...But we're in the city, not the forest."
"That's not the point, idiot," Ren glared, "so just shut up and see if your whole family is here."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"Where's daddy?"
Everyone's eyes widened at Kanon's words, and Calera quickly pulled Karin close to muffle her sobs.
"I told him I'd get Karin. What?" Ren challenged the looks of disbelief he received with a sour expression.
"We are going to get him."
"Anju, don't be stupid! We don't even know if that's where he went!"
"The bats saw him go into the hotel not long after the beam collapsed."
"...Fine." Ren huffed.
"No, there he is! The hunters are after him though!" Elda suddenly grinned like a maniac. "What a tough little human~ Maybe he's worth toying with in the near future."
Kenta yelled something at them as he stumbled out of the hotel and in their general direction. He was obviously relieved to see that everyone was all right, but something suddenly startled him enough to force him into a run.
Henry yelped and jumped aside as something zinged by his leg. "Not now, mama, the hunters are shooting at us again! That's what he was warning us about!"
"Well damn, and the sun's coming up! Make for the manor, I guess..."
"Just run, mama!"
"I'm running! I'm running! And you're going to get whacked with a slipper if you keep telling me what to- HEY!" Elda hissed at the hunter who clipped her arm with a bullet and sent a bat whizzing into his face. "Kanon, come on!"
"But daddy! Uwaah!"
Kanon stumbled and almost fell but Silviu, who was the closest to her, quickly grabbed her arm and started pulling her along. "It's okay, Kanon, your mom's right here, your dad's close, and we're gonna be safe..." the dhampir drifted back into soft but rapid Romanian but it didn't matter - Kanon was trying not to pass out from the pain in her leg.
"It hurts..."
"Ignore it. Just stay awake. We're going to that store, and you can rest insi-"
Henry and Karin quickly darted out of the convenience store they'd broken into and pulled Kanon and Silviu through the busted-out doorway before they were hit by any more bullets. It was hard to tell how many shots they'd taken due to all of the blood, but they didn't have time to do much more than bandage Kanon's and Silviu's wounds.
"The hunters...?!" Anju suddenly gasped just as Elda's hands balled into fists.
"You saw that too?"
"Yes. We should take advantage of this and return to the manor."
Karin stared at the two with wide, tear-rimmed eyes. "Why? What happened?"
"The hunters are dead, but Kenta is no longer there."
_-Embarrassment!-*'
Gerard watched the chaos from atop another nearby hotel, his longbow in one hand and a large, heavy-tipped arrow in the other in case any more vampire hunters appeared and attempted to shoot the dirty-blonde vampire. He'd never been fond of Karl Loft, so when Loft told him to stay out of the way unless things got out of control, he conveniently turned a blind eye when the other vampire hunter was killed. Vampire hunting was the only thing that he knew how to do. Now that the psyche was able to create new vampires he'd have no shortage of the bloodthirsty creatures to kill.
Something stirred in a small side street and Gerard almost sent an arrow whizzing toward the area when he realized that the figures winding their way out of sight were the vampires he was trying to preserve.
Good riddance.
He turned and fired another flaming arrow into the burning hotel for good measure.
[Edited 6/8/15]