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CHAPTER 9 - Man in black
Mavis and Jonathan looked disoriented. They had no idea who that crazy man could be, and neither could understand what he was suggesting. The vampire girl stood up and with a little afraid smile asked:
"Are you okay? You needs some hel-"
"Shut up! You're only a slimy leech!" She was abruptly interrupted by the man's words.
Mavis was petrified by so much gratuitous violence, she could not understand what he wanted from them. Jonathan also stood up while remaining close to the girl, they were both scared.
The dark figure took a few steps forward out of the shadows. Finally, the two saw more details of his clothing, he wore gloves with reinforced knuckles, big boots, knee pads, elbow pads and chest protector in matte black polymer, but his face was still hidden.
He took something from under his jacket and with a quick gesture, such as pulling a blow to the air, it opened into a modern compound bow made of carbon fiber, it was small, about eighteen inches, but the mechanical complexity and technical materials made him feared. Wasting no time it was charged with a matte white fiber arrow and pointed menacingly toward Mavis. Jonathan instinctively stood in front of the girl to protect her from imminent danger, but she forcefully pulled him behind her, after all, the loved human was weaker than her and she did not want him being harmed.
Meanwhile, the boy saw better the arrow and thought:
"It is not like the ones I used often with my friends, sporting arrows have a small tip, this is larger and ends in three retractable blades! It is not for sports, but designed to penetrate the flesh and stuck in the target due to the blades which open on impact!"
The anguish of Jonathan increased.
"This man is too organized: military protections,tacticalweapons and who knows what else. He is not a fool. This added to the speeches that he did lead to a single result, he is a monster hunter, like the ones I saw in horror movies, but if it is true, how can I stop him?"
These thoughts passed through his mind in a moment, but to he seemed like an eternity, so out of desperation with trembling voice began to speak to the hunter:
"Hey, calm, please, we have not done anything wrong, anything you want from us we can talk quietly ... Are you a monster hunter, right?"
These words surprised the other two, but while she was beginning to be too confused to ask questions the man asked:
"What do you know about monsters? You seem too awkward and crazy to be a hunter. Maybe you are only a little boy watching too many romantic movies about vampires and you've fallen in love with one of them. Know that this is just fiction! Believe me, I'm Simon Van Helsing, the last heir of the most important family of hunters in the world and by an expert on vampires I'm sure she'll bleed you dry whenever she get the chance!"
"It's not true!" Retorted the two young together.
"The monsters not as bad as they once was, there are many friendly monsters, you can not kill them all indiscriminately!" Jonathan continued pulling out a strength and a brave that he never would thought to have.
"Stupid fool! Do you trust the false words of a man-eating monster?! Go away now, I do not want risk hitting you too!"
"NO!" the boy yelled determined.
So impatient, Simon loaded with more force the bow and shot. The arrow lighted by the moon left a shining trail and cutting the air hissing reached Mavis, who closed her eyes and clenched her teeth in fright. The arrow went through her at high speed in a pink flash, the vampire changed into a bat just before the arrow sticking deadly in her heart.
"Failure!" Said the little bat wiggling the wings to be suspended on the spot.
Simon made a baffled face and lowering the bow murmured:
"Damn, this was not planned"
Mavis looked at him perplexed
"Before you boasted of being a professional monsters murderer, but now remain amazed at the transformation of a vampire?"
Then, that smell saturated the air, the smell that already had made her crazy at the castle, but much stronger than before.
She saw that the hunter was not looking at her, but behind her, so she turned her gaze and saw that her eyes would never have wanted to see. Jonathan had the arrow stuck in the chest, holding it with one hand as to want to take off, but he did not even have the strength to close his fingers.
He coughed up blood and fell on his knees, the pain he felt was holding him like a vice that prevented him from speaking or shouting. He tried to stand still, but fell, Mavis changed back jumping behind him her knees to take him. She held him tightly in her arms, then looked distressed and helpless the arrow and the wound until her vision blurred due to the tears that she could not restrain.
She did not know what to do, so trying to give courage to the boy she rested her head on his chest yelling:
"Don't die now! Please, don't die! It's all my fault, I shouldn't have avoided that arrow!"
The boy, who was breathing heavily now, just move his eyes on vampire and barely moved his lips, in vain, in search of words that froze in his mouth before he can say it.
Mavis looked up at the hunter and sobbing yelled at him:
"Why... why you do this?!"
Simon was surprised, his eyes turned back to his childhood, a harrowing scene like this he had already lived: he was crying... his mother on the floor covered in blood... the vampire who watched them amused... and the same question, the same search for a rational justification that would make sense to all this pain... But the daydream was broken abruptly by Mavis who jumped on him roaring like a beast with claws and fangs unsheathed.
The man fell to the ground losing the bow, while the girl, full of desire for revenge, began to claw his chest. The hits were violent enough to shake the ground, it seemed impossible so much strength could get out from a girl looking young and petite. She broke the polymer chest armor easily, but even after several slashing the Kevlar vest resisted to cuts. The hard blows, however, were enough to break his ribs and leave him breathless.
Mavis, unable to damage that tissue, took it by the hands and began to pull with all her strength. The velcro side closure did not resist and opened making pull out the vest, now there was only a thin cotton shirt to separate the body of man from the claws of the vampiress.
Mavis stopped for a moment to savor the carnage that she was going to do, but while she was to strike a fatal blow, the man took the opportunity to grab an arrow next to him and stabbed it in her waist causing her to fall to the side.
The girl felt burning inside, as magma flowed in her veins, the wound was smoking and the skin around it looked like burning coal. The arrow was coated with silver, but the strength of the emotions that made her endure the pain of sunburn was now also withstand the pain of silver, even though hundreds of times worse.
Mavis went back over Simon to immobilize him and with a clawed tore the flesh on his chest. that She had blood everywhere, she stood still looking at her dripping hands, while the man was writhing in pain.
"You want it..." That echo was also reborn inside her.
"I want it..." Sighed the vampiress.
"Take him..."
The vampire opened her mouth exposing her long fangs hungry and promptly struck the first bite to which man counterattacked with an elbow to the eye that stopped her, but she tried again immediately, Simon stopped her hardly holding her by the neck.
Mavis continued to growl, roar and bite the air, so he immediately counter attacked, took the arrow stuck on Mavis and pulled it attempting to shift the vampiress screaming in pain.
Simon succeeded to make a way to reach the belt where he kept a dagger and pulled it out quickly so throw a blow, but the girl had returned to the attack tearing again the man's body, while the knife scarred her face from side to side, passing between the eyes, the wound was not deep, but worsened burning as had happened with the arrow.
Mavis fell backward, Simon crawled back, then the two, seriously wounded, stood up with difficulty eyeing each other and both waiting for each other's move, but no one moved.
They knew that their injuries were serious and the fight probably would have ended with the death of both.
Without saying a word the hunter retrieved the bow at his feet and backed away, the vampiress picked up the dying Jonathan, then after a last look, they fled and disappeared into the forest in two opposite directions.
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