Chapter 25
When I said it won't be long before they return, this is not what I had in mind.
The leader and his strigoi guardians came flooding into the room and boy are they pissed.
Meanwhile: In the Basement
The battle of the strigoi is in the thick. Guardians are protecting each others' backs and working together to get the strigoi population down. The basement is like a large cave that strigoi would normally hide in, stone walls and little to no lighting. There is close to 100 strigoi in this cave-like basement, which may not seem like a lot, but with their strength, 100 is hard to control even though there are twice the amount of guardians. Guardians are falling much quicker than anyone would like. But the strong guardians are kicking ass with team work and well executioned attacks.
If someone was to pause this scene, they'd find many bodies on the ground, guardians mixed in with strigoi. Multiple battle circles, some guardians have multiple strigoi on them, others are injured doing the best they can to fight, and some are in the air either being thrown or jumping to attack. There are some guardians with blood on their clothes, others with rips in theirs. There are injured guardians that have taken a break to help stabilize those with major injuries.
The strigoi are falling, but the guardians definitely need back up.
Out in the Construction Yard
The 15 guardians standing guard have no idea what's really going on inside, they just stand at their post in the yard and await news. The construction yard is the same graveyard it was earlier, a little hotter and dryer, but the same.
Down the road they see some people coming. They are doing a nicely paced jog to the yard. The guardians meet them at the gate. The whole group is moroi.
"Are you guys back up?" one of the guardians finally spoke up
"Moroi willing to fight" the leader says
"We have a group of 20" another says
"10 of us are fire users" says one in the back
"What you guys are going to do is go in the large door on the right side of the building and find your way downstairs. Last we heard, the strigoi were down in the basement."
The moroi headed to the side of the building.
The guardians are still unsure if anyone will ever come out of that building.
Back to the Makeshift Blood Bank
There were 5 of them, four strigoi guardians and the leader. My mom and the now 12 guardians ran forward to handle the strigoi guards. Guess where the leader went when they came charging at them… running right towards Adrian, Dimitri and I.