Kelly POV
Going deeper into the archives there are more corridors leading to a single one, and I swear that stench is getting worse! At first I thought it was mould but as we walked further down it got worse.
"What's that smell?" Karen asks, I narrow my eyes at the voice I hear beyond us,
"...image carefully, Frost. You will need 12 purebloods to make the ritual work. Krieger, is that you?" they ask, and my eyes widen in shock and disgust, a great mound of flesh from one vampire, that's just beyond gross, his eyes finding us as we appear before him,
"He-he's here! He's here!" he says, obviously speaking to someone else, his eyes seem solely on Blade,
"This must be Pearl, the record keeper" Blade says, I nod in agreement, blocking my nose as I walk over with Blade to a screen that Pearl must have been using to speak with someone. The sound and smell he makes is disgusting, thankfully only muffled from my blocking my nose,
"He's going to kill me! You need me, Frost! You need me!" Pearl cries, pathetic,
"Pearl, you're history. Have the good grace to die with some fuckin' dignity" says the voice of Frost from the screen, Blade brings the screen to look at us after stepping beside me,
"Congratulations, Blade" he says, his eyes on Blade but I see them go to me, I narrow my eyes at him,
"I hear you've been Lookin' for me. I'm flattered. Truly, my dead heart beats from the sight of the lovely Kelly I see before me" he says, I frown at him for this, sticking my middle finger up at him seeing him grin in response.
"It'll pass" Blade says, thankfully answering for both of us, then ending the call.
"What is that?" Pearl asks, I look to Karen where he was looking to see her bringing the torch out from its bag,
"That, biscuitboy, is a U.V. lamp. We're gonna play a little game of 20 questions. Depending on how you answer, you may walk out of here with a tan. What's that?" Blade asks, indicating the digital layout on the screen,
"Oh, that? Oh, it's nothing. It's routine research. Heh heh. Actually, it's a video game." He says but I look to Karen and she nods in understanding then points the flash light at Pearl, turning it on and frying him, making him scream in agony.
"That must've hurt" I say, Blade nodding in agreement after she switches it off,
"It's a fragment, a piece of the prophecy!" Pearl cries, obviously in a lot of pain from being scorched,
"What prophecy?" Blade asks, I frown at him for this, what prophecy? And why would Frost be so interested in it?
"Oh, I'm not really sure. There are so many out—," but again Karen fries him rather than hearing more of his lies, good she's learning.
However, as he screams I can understand the vampire language enough to understand what he is saying, La Magra is coming? Spirits of the twelve will awaken the blood god? What the heck?
"And there is nothing you can do about it, daywalker!" he screams, again after Karen turns the torch off.
"Is that so?" Blade asks,
"Well, that's what Frost says" Pearls says weakly,
"Well Frost can take what he says and stuff it up his ass" I say, he sneers at me for this,
"His plans for you are too good for you, you deserve to be sucked dry" he says, I glare at him for this, then point my gun at his leg and shoot it, hearing his scream, should have lost weight then you might have been able to run for it.
"Then you won't mind me borrowing this for a while, will you? If he moves, fry him" says Blade, after taking the tape from the computer. Good, me and dad can take a look at it later, I want to know what this whole blood god is.
"What's in here?" Blade asks, after going over to a metallic door to the end of the room, heavily locked too from the looks of it,
"N-nothing its…s-store room but you're wasting your time. There's nothing of importance to anyone" Pearl says, good grief you would think that he would know by now that we can tell when he is lying.
"Then you won't mind if we take a peek" Blade says, I go over to him and help look at the door,
"No!"
His screams get louder, and ongoing to the point where after a while I look behind me to see Pearl next to cooked before Karen looks to us like a kid caught with her hand in the cookie jar, turning the flash light off. Pearl whimpering in pain.
"He moved" she says, I smirk at her for this, I'm beginning to like her. I turn back to the door and pull out a sticky grenade from my messenger bag, looking to Blade in question,
"Good idea" he says with a faint smile which I return, planting the grenade,
"Step back" I say, stepping away from the door with Blade, bringing Karen back a little with us, then when at a safe distance I press the trigger, exploding the door.
"See ya Pearl" I say as we walk to the newly made entry way and find a lot of glass cases, keeping old pieces of parchment safe. On closer inspection, I believe I know what it is, the vampire bible, the book of Erebus.
"What is this?" Karen asks, herself also having been looking at the pages, I walk over to Blade,
"These are the pages from The Book of Erebus, the Vampire Bible. It contains everything... their entire history. La Magra must be one of their legends" Blade says, I look at one of the pages, slowly deciphering one, it's difficult to read but dad taught me how, I'm just a little rusty is all, if we find something that relates to La Magra then dad can tell us the rest.
"Why is Frost so interested in La Magra?" Karen asks, that's what I want to know also, but Blade shushes her, I look to him confused but then hear hurried footsteps.
I nod to him for this, letting him know I will stay with Karen, I watch as he goes away to investigate, I look back at the page I was looking at earlier but more footsteps are heard from where we came in and before I have time to react, a hand is on my throat from behind,
"Don't even think about pulling out a weapon sweetheart, wouldn't want to hurt your pretty little neck" comes Quinn's voice, I roll my eyes in frustration.
"Hello again Quinn, heard you lost another hand" I say inwardly smirking, feeling him tighten his hold on my neck, but I can feel the restraint he has on himself not to do any tighter, he wants to choke me but something is holding him back.
I hear a smash and look to where the sound came from, seeing other vampires around us, one holding Karen,
"Let's go see big brother, shall we?" Quinn says, pulling us toward where the sound was, there finding Blade being held against a wall by two men and a thin rope around his neck from behind, cowards!
"Well, well, well. You took my arm, man. Remember? But it's cool. I gotta new one. Think I'll ever play piano again?" Quinn asks, showing off his brand new arm and hand, and I have a vague idea as to where and whom he may have gotten it from,
"You can slice him, you can dice him, but the Quinn man just keeps on comin!" he shouts, I roll my eyes at this, hearing the others laughing at his words,
"No matter how much we wish otherwise" I say, feeling his hand tighten on my throat again in response, but again he doesn't go farther than that, why?
"Check it out. I've got his pig sticker." Says a male who I see at the corner of my eye from where I can see him that he is holding Blade's sword, I share a look with Blade knowing what will happen next, however I did not want to be this close since not a few seconds later his hand explodes and I get a lovely bit of spray on me,
"You're a fuckup, Crease! Ha ha ha ha! You're a fuckup! "I got his pig sticker!" Ohh. You're just full of surprises, ain't you, chief?" Quinn asks, after handing me over to another male him holding my arms behind my back.
Quinn now standing before Blade and starts to punch him in the chest, laughable because Blade is very obviously wearing body armour there, however he must have realised this surprisingly and punches him in the face, I narrow my eyes at Quinn he is seriously going to die.
"Stay with me, sweetness... 'cause I'm not finished with you yet. Ah, looky here. Sliver. Nice craftsmanship, huh? Probably cost you a pretty penny. Now, this here is a man who takes his job...just a little too seriously, don't you think? Come to think of it, Blade, I owe you one" he says, then suddenly using the silver stake and stabs Blade in the shoulder with it, I try to throw off the one holding me but his grip on me tightens, I swiftly kick backward between his legs and catch him, his release on me gone. I elbow him in the face knocking him to the ground and I run at Quinn with a sais in hand after getting it out of its holster from my hip and stab him through the shoulder, hearing him scream in agony and shock,
"What goes around comes around bitch!" I say, dodging others whom come at me before I'm pinned against the floor head down,
"You! You are – you are so fucking lucky! That I have orders not to hurt you, under any circumstances, because the amount of hurt I would do to you makes me feel a great load of happy right now bitch!" Quinn says, hearing the pain in his voice from above,
"Why aren't you allowed? Who the hell gave you this order and why?!" I ask, looking up to him, seeing him take a knee down in front of me, holding my sais in his hand after presumably taking it out of his shoulder,
"That would be telling now wouldn't it, just thank your fucking lucky stars princess" he says then getting up and going back over to Blade, I glare fiercely at him for this, I don't like this, who the hell made this order, I have some kind of protection from these killers and it makes my skin crawl.
"Actually, if you want to get technical, Blade... I owe you two." He says, but he pauses upon hearing Blade laughing,
"Oh, what's so funny, bright eyes?" Quinn asks, I look to Blade seeing him still laughing,
"I'm expecting company" he says laughing still and that's when I smirk, I know who's coming, and without delay an explosion erupts to my left, cases with the pages smashing around where the explosion was, the ones holding me backing away, I grab my sais in one hand and get up on one knee, I look to see my dad standing where the explosion broke the wall,
"Catch you fuckers at a bad time?" he asks, the vampires suddenly coming out of their shock and beginning to advance on him but dad already starts to shoot at them with his gun. I run to dad with Blade and Karen following after Blade got himself away from the men holding him, and me knocking out the weird blond holding Karen.
I quickly grab the page I was reading earlier and my sais that Quinn dropped, running to dads side narrowly avoiding being shot a few times,
"No! No guns! No! No! No! No! Fuckin' this way! Drop the guns! I need him! He wants Blade and Kelly alive! Go!" shouts Quinn, I grow more confused by this, so both me AND Blade are wanted alive, well that's a first considering they have been trying to kill him for years.
We go into another room where dad is guarding at the entrance with his gun, Blade quickly taking out the stake from his shoulder, shots stop suddenly after what Quinn says, dad joining us after a minute of running,
"You've been listening in the whole time?" Karen asks, dad on my left side, us walking along the tunnel,
"Keeping radio contact." Blade says, I can hear the slight pain in his voice, not that he would let that on, but I know he will still be feeling the pain from the stab wound, it won't heal until early tomorrow.
"Think I'd let these two run loose without a chaperon?" dad asks, I smirk at this with an eye roll, but just as we near the exit of the tunnel, a train flies past sending mine and Karen's hair to go flying, I creep to the side of the wall with dad, I look behind us to see the vampires coming at us, I go to the right side with Blade and Karen going left, dad following me,
"Christ! I'm too old for this. Somebody get me a god-damn wheelchair!" dad shouts as another train goes past us,
"Not a chance in hell!" I shout, he laughs at me for this which I join, suddenly an explosion erupts and throws debris at the train which smacks into both me and dad, throwing me against the wall and down the side, I stare at the train tracks right in front of me, missing by inches, shit.
I back up carefully, seeing dad come down to me,
"Are you alright?" he asks, I nod catching my breath, he looks to my side and sees an escape hatch, I nod in agreement, him opening it up and going in first, me following behind,
"Think those two will be alright?" I ask, as we go down another tunnel,
"They'll be fine, your brother knows to come home after a fight" he says, I nod at this, but then flash a light at him from my bag that I still remarkably have, looking at the deep cut on his head,
"Does it make me look prettier?" he asks, I smirk at this,
"Makes you look rather dashing pa" I say laughing slightly, he chuckles at this, bringing his arm around my shoulders,
"Let's get home" he says, I couldn't agree more, there is a lot to talk about.