Ok, here's part eight
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Underworld 2: The Three Sided War
War
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Lucian slowly opened his eyes to find Sonja snuggled up against him. Smiling, he ran a hand through her hair before kissing one of her bare shoulders, causing her to stir as she awoke. She yawned and stretched before her eyes traveled up to his face. She smiled.
"How'd you sleep?" she asked as she ran one of her delicate hands across his face, his beard tickling her soft skin.
"I haven't slept as well as I had yesterday since…since the night I found out you were pregnant… the night before Viktor found out about us." he responded with a rather grim tone, since he had just brought up some rather painful memories to the two.
Sonja nodded before laying her head on his chest.
"We should probably get up," Sonja said after a few moments of silence.
"We probably should… in an hour or so."
Sonja grinned as she leaned up and gently kissed him, before moving down to his neck. She kissed his neck and then her fangs elongated, and she gently brushed them against him, causing him to let out what sounded like a purr.
"Ahem."
The two looked up at the door where Gabriel stood, while covering his eyes, as to not see anything that they didn't want him to see.
"You two slept a while. It's the afternoon. We need to get ready."
Lucian and Sonja almost groaned as Gabriel left the room and they got out of the bed and started to get dressed.
***
Everyone was arming themselves as Lucian and Sonja entered the main room of the underground lair.
"Alright, here's the plan," Gabriel said as he moved to a table where several guns and bladed weapons lay strewn about, as well as the blue prints of the former vampire coven mansion that Damon had stolen.
"Selene, you and Michael will lead a group to the outside of the mansion. Lucian and I will lead another group underground and follow Sebastian and his men. The second you hear gunfire, blow a hole in the mansion and jump in during the confusion. After that…just try not to get shot."
Gabriel noticed the looks everyone was giving him, and just raised an eyebrow. "What? Trying not to get shot is in every strategy for every battle that you've been in."
"He's got a point," Raze said.
"I guess he does."
Gabriel clasped his hands together. "Okay, so I guess we head out now. Any questions before we go?" Talos raised his hand. "Yes, Talos?" he said.
"Yeah, I call dibs on killing Sebastian."
Sonja raised her eyebrow. "Dibs?"
"It means I get to kill Sebastian."
Sonja nodded. "Oh."
Gabriel just rolled his eyes. "Okay, now that that's out of the way, let's move out."
***
The large group of warriors moved down one of the dark underground tunnels, led by Sebastian and Lazarus. Faustus and Jared were behind them, and Ortega and the twins were nowhere to be found among the group.
Earlier Sebastian had told three hybrids to stay behind and watch incase they were being followed. Meanwhile, Ortega and the twins had gone a different route to the mansion, through a tunnel Lazarus had made that would lead them to below the armory. The plan was that the twins would go up, kill whoever was in there, and then cut open the floor and let Ortega in. After that they would wait until Sebastian and the rest and arrived.
Gabriel, Lucian, Sonja, Kane, Raze, Raziel, and Eliza, as well as a group of vampires, moved slowly after the group consisting of Sebastian and the rest, while they kept a long distance behind to make sure Sebastian didn't realize that they were being followed.
They had run into the three hybrids shortly after, and quickly dispatched them.
***
The armory was quiet, save for a hybrid who was target practicing with a statue head, similar in the way that Selene and the vampire death dealers used to do several years ago.
The hybrid stopped shooting and lowered his gun as he reloaded. He was about to start firing again when he heard a noise: a scratching noise that seemed to come from the other end of the room. Still holding his gun he walked over to where the noise was coming from. Then he stopped and looked down.
It seemed to be coming from the floor.
What in the devil is…?
The ground suddenly exploded as a black blur shot up out of the floor, causing the hybrid to stumble backwards before tripping and falling on his ass. He quickly scrambled to his feet as the being stood upright.
The hybrid watched as a large black man stepped out of the shadows, his eyes had an incredible coldness to them, as well as what seemed like a hunger. Ortega smirked.
"Surprise."
The hybrid snarled before lunging and lashing out with a punch. Ortega's head snapped to the side as his fist flew by his head before grabbing the arm and breaking it. As the hybrid yelled in pain, Ortega lashed out with a roundhouse kick that knocked him to the ground. Before the hybrid could recover, Ortega leapt skyward and came plummeting down on the hybrid. His steel-toed boots smashed into the hybrid's head, effectively smashing it into a bloody pulp.
He then turned around and watched as the twins rose up out of the floor before turning solid again. The two glanced at the hybrid's corpse on the floor, and then back at Ortega.
"Can we move along now?" one of them asked in a bored tone.
"Hey, just because we have orders doesn't mean we can't have a bit of fun. You two need to learn to enjoy this type of shit," Ortega said to the two before leaning down and picking up the fallen hybrid's gun.
Then, he walked over to one of the walls and leaned against it, and started to wait for Sebastian and the rest to show up.
***
"We're here."
Lazarus stopped and looked above where they were walking. "Are you sure?" he asked Sebastian.
Sebastian nodded. "Trust me on this. I'm sure."
"Very well," Lazarus said before he raised his hand as it began to glow with the color of blood. Then, a disc of energy shot out and into the ceiling above them. Lazarus twisted his hand and everyone moved out of the way as a rather large chunk of rock fell to the floor.
Lazarus looked up at the hole before he suddenly levitated, flying upwards through the hole. Sebastian jumped after him, with the rest following.
The group in the room that they went into never knew what hit them, as several members of the group opened fire, gunning down several in a matter of seconds.
***
Outside, Michael, Selene, Damon, and a few others watched the mansion when their ears caught the sound of gunfire.
"Time to go to work," Damon said almost gleefully as he and Michael loaded the miniature grenade launchers they were holding. Then, they both leapt foreword, their supernatural abilities carrying them towards the mansion with amazing speed. As they neared it they each fired at a different part of the house.
***
Inside, Sebastian killed the last hybrid in the room when he was suddenly knocked through the air as the wall next to where he was standing exploded. Everyone else recoiled as well.
Damon and Michael landed inside the room, each tossing their grenade launchers aside. Sebastian's face darkened when he saw Damon.
"DAMON, YOU BACKSTABBING FUCK," He cursed. Damon smirked.
"Well, I decided to backstab you before you backstabbed me."
Sebastian snarled. "Fine, than I'll just kill you sooner then I was going to."
Michael roared as he morphed into his hybrid form and launched foreword, knocking several vampires and lycans aside, while Damon pulled out a modified Uzi and opened fire at Sebastian's direction.
Then more sounds of gunfire filled the air as Selene and the rest of the group leapt in through the hole that Damon and Michael had made.
***
Marcus moved through the hall, not even curious as to what all the commotion was. He already knew.
Sebastian.
So, he's come to kill me… Marcus couldn't help but smile, since now he would have the pleasure of crushing the life from that pathetic…
A hybrid, fully transformed, exploded through the floor. Its eyes settled on Marcus' before charging, its body becoming a blur.
And then Marcus disappeared, and a wet ripping sound filled the air.
A second later, Marcus appeared again, his hand dripping with blood from the heart he now held in his hand. And then the hybrid's body collapsed, blood spraying from its throat and chest as it convulsed once before dying. Marcus looked down at the heart, and was surprised to see it actually beat one more time before stopping.
He chuckled as he tossed the heart aside before continuing through the hall.
***
It didn't take long for just about every hybrid in the mansion to join in on the shootout, as well as Lucian, Sonja, Gabriel and the rest of the group also, and soon it was becoming a vicious three way contest of survival.
Practically everyone had been shot, but most of the people on the renegade's side were lucky as they had been hit with the opposite bullet of what would have killed them. Some lycans had been hit with the ultra violet ammunition, while some vampires had been hit with silver nitrate. True, it did hurt, but it wouldn't kill them.
Slowly, but surely, the battle started to split, small parties moving into other parts of the mansion, and soon there weren't many in the large main room of the house, save Lucian, Sonja, and a few hybrids that weren't on their side.
Lucian shot one down, as did Sonja before another came out of nowhere and kicked her to the ground. Before he could finish her off, Lucian sprung foreword and lashed out with a kick that carried so much force that it broke the hybrid's neck.
As the body tumbled to the ground, Lucian leaned down and helped Sonja to her feet.
"Thanks," she panted, due to the exhilaration from the fight, as she leaned up and quickly kissed him.
"You shouldn't thank him yet, since it's far from over."
The two looked up as Lazarus descended from where he had been watching, waiting for everyone else to scatter.
"Well, what do you know," he said with a cruel smirk as he landed. "It's just the three of us. Now, do you know the saying 'payback's a bitch'? Well, I'd say that I was the bitch, but since I'm not a woman, that wo…"
Sonja raised her gun and fired, sending three bullets in his direction before he could finish talking. Lazarus calmly raised his hand and a disk of red energy appeared, the bullets bouncing harmlessly off it.
Lazarus suddenly formed his hand into a claw and pulled it towards him, and Sonja jerked as some mystical energy pulled her towards him.
"It's rude to interrupt someone who's talking," Lazarus spat in Sonja's face before backhanding her hard, knocking her unconscious, as well as sending her body through the air, where it would have crashed into the wall, except Lucian had leapt foreword and caught it before landing and gently placing her body on the ground. Standing up, he faced Lazarus, who smirked.
Lazarus then began to chant something in some unknown language, even as black energy could actually be seen flowing through his body. As the chanting continued it became louder, and louder, until Lazarus reached the loudest point and the energy exploded out of him.
Then it was done. Lucian stared at Lazarus cautiously. "What did you do?" he asked.
Lazarus shrugged. "I just cast a spell on myself. It increased my speed and strength to around your level. I figured since our last match wasn't really fair, I figured this time it would be simple hand to hand. And besides, I'd rather beat you to death anyway."
With that he charged, and Lucian did likewise, and the centuries-old warlock and hybrid collided and began exchanging colossal blows.
***
Gabriel had moved into the armory with several hybrids, vampires, and lycans. Some of them were working for Sebastian; some were Marcus' death dealers, so it was still three-sided. Eventually, all the shooting brought it down to two vampires, which were then decapitated by Gabriel.
As he lowered his sword, he suddenly heard clapping. Looking over he watched as Faustus emerged from one of the dark corners of the room where he had been watching.
"Very impressive," he said in a non-sarcastic tone as he moved foreword. "I'm assuming you know how to use that thing," he said, motioning to the katana Gabriel was holding.
"You'd assume correctly," Gabriel said as he moved backwards, assuming a stance. Faustus smirked.
"I hope your right, because I haven't had a good challenge in more than two hundred years."
With that he moved his hands behind his back and pulled out two swords. The first one was longer than the second one, and had a curved blade with the bottom having a serrated edge. The other sword had a straight blade.
He moved into a stance as well, one blade raised high, the other low.
Gabriel made the first move, as he tried to sweep Faustus' legs from under him, but his opponent just jumped up before bringing both blades down towards Gabriel, only to have them blocked by the katana. Faustus then launched a snap kick, but Gabriel blocked it with one hand before spinning and lashing out with a thrust kick, smashing Faustus in the stomach.
That had happened in less than three seconds, as both warriors were using their superhuman speed to its maximum potential.
And then they went at it, slashing, kicking, punching, dodging, and blocking as they moved throughout the empty chamber, sparks flying from their swords as they dueled.
***
Unlike last time, the fight between Lucian and Lazarus was actually pretty equally matched. Both had matching speed and strength, and both had centuries of combat skill.
Lucian smashed into a wall as Lazarus smashed him with both palms open in the chest. Lucian quickly recovered though and moved foreword, his fist nearly tearing Lazarus' head off. The longer the fight progressed, the more brutal it had become.
Lucian caught Lazarus' left arm as he tried to punch him and broke it, causing Lazarus to scream before punching Lucian with his other hand, satisfaction flowing through him as he felt the hybrid's ribs break.
Sonja, meanwhile, started to stir. She awoke to see her lover and Lazarus strangling each other. Her eyes widened.
"LUCIAN!"
Lucian looked over as he heard her call out his name. "Sonja, he whispered."
Unfortunately for him, however, that tiny moment when he looked away was all Lazarus needed.
He thrust out his other arm as a red energy spear formed in it before slamming it foreword, the energy impaling Lucian through the chest. Lucian gasped as he suddenly coughed up a large amount of blood. Despite his pain, he didn't stop attacking, and he raised his arm as the blade shot out of his coat sleeve before he plunged it into Lazarus's stomach.
For a moment the two just stood there, each one impaled on the other's weapon…
…and then Lazarus brutally punched Lucian. As Lucian's head whipped back, Lazarus grabbed his head and twisted it, brutally snapping his neck.
To Sonja, it was almost in slow motion, as she watched the body of her guardian hit the floor, his eyes starring vacantly at the ceiling, and as Lazarus turned and looked at her. The warlock was in horrible condition. Bones were broken, and blood poured from several wounds.
But he wasn't dead.
And Lucian was.
Sonja didn't think, she just acted on impulse, raising her gun and emptying her gun at him. But he was suddenly in front of her, and he brutally kicked her in the stomach, sending her crashing into the wall before she slumped to the floor.
Through her pain, she raised her head and looked at Lucian's body, letting out a sob. Lazarus smiled cruelly.
"Don't worry. You'll be joining him soon enough," he said gleefully as he raised his hand and black energy crackled around it…
To Be Continued.
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