After meeting with Mina Harker's spiritual adviser Father Curt Arnold, Anna descends upon the hideout of the vampire group Sigma 12 to find Harker once and for all. However, this would not be a walk in the park.
Chapter 24
Its 9:55 p.m. on a Monday night. I'm in my apartment gearing up for a little visit. I began by loading silver nitrate bullets into the magazines of the weapons I was gonna use. Two Sig-Sauer P229 handguns and a brand-new Heckler and Koch 416 assault rifle which was light weight and would come in handy in a water-logged environment. I got this from a fellow vampire hunter named Simon Byrd who gave me this on the day of all days: my birthday; imagine that. I tucked my two handguns into the gun holsters strapped unto both of my legs and strapped the H&K 416 over my shoulders. Dressed in a long, black trench coat I descended downstairs and took a cab to the train station. The train was quite empty with very few, if any passengers. I had a seat in the third car of the train and it took off to downtown L.A.
I sat in that corner with a guy who looked like he was in his early twenties listening to tunes on what appeared to be an I-Pod seated at my right. In the virtual silence from the other passengers with the exception on the screeching of the train on the tracks outside I began to think about the perceived events that was about to unfold. What if I was walking right into my own funeral? Exactly how many guys were in this shit hole? What if I fuck up in this one? I haven't talked to Danny for a long while now; what if he's looking down the barrel of a twelve gage shotgun right now? I don't wanna think about that. The biggest question I had at that moment was through all the shit I've been through lately was looking for Mina Harker really worth two months of my life? I gave it a long hard thought. After a while I realised I didn't have an answer. Getting to Manhole 66 was the easy part. The week before I contacted another fellow vampire hunter named Andrew Peterson who worked in the Sewerage Authority. He was able to give me the precise location of Manhole 66. It was found around abandoned apartments in East Los Angeles. It takes me thirty minutes to reach this location. I carried a crowbar to open the manhole. I jabbed the crowbar in the crease of the cover, but it slipped off. I jabbed it again, this time the cover popped open. The cover was quite heavy when I started to shift it from the top of the hole. The moment the hole was opened a fresh stench burned my nose. I turned my head away for a moment and looked back into the hole. It was pitch dark with the sound of dripping water echoing throughout the sewer. There was a ladder at the right of the hole. I took a deep breath and exhaled and then climbed down the ladder with the unbearable stench burning my nose.
I kept climbing down until my legs touched the water in water. The water was reaching up to my knees, plus it felt mossy and slimy and I could feel solid particles floating around me. My two Sig P229 handguns were mounted with flashlights at the bottom in order for me to see in this shit hole. I turned on the flashlights, cocked my handguns and moved forward. The water made my movements very slow and all the while fear had absolute authority over me. I looked dead ahead and saw a pathway leading to a corner. When I made it to this corner it led me to another pathway. At my left there was what appeared to be a long, narrow walkway. I climbed unto the walkway, soaking wet and continued. It seemed like hours went by as I approached pathway after pathway after pathway. Where the fuck were these guys? Approximately thirty minutes had passed when something caught my eye. There were about six guys sitting in a circle armed with H&K UMP submachine guns and H&K G36C assault rifles. I carefully hid myself behind the wall as I tried to make out what they were saying but they were barely audible.
My eyes caught a glimpse of one of them standing up. At that moment I started to move but suddenly I slipped off the edge and my left foot fell in the water. A big splash followed which alerted all six of the guys. I heard the sound of their guns cocking which sucked out nearly all the breath in my body and then I started to run. I was way ahead of them when I heard one of the guys saying, "Over there!" before firing his gun at me. The others joined him firing their weapons at me chipping away a long line of concrete from the wall at the side of me. I stopped at the corner, took cover behind the wall and fired shots from my two Sig-Sauer P229 handguns at the incoming group. A few shots hit two guys and their skin turned to ash and their bones into dust. I started to run again and this time I jumped in the sewerage water to find my way back to the ladder. Like before the water made my movements very slow. Behind my back I could hear the sound of automatic gunfire hitting the water and some bullets zipping over my ears. I looked up and saw one of those bloodsuckers firing a Mac 10 submachine gun at me. I pointed my guns at the guy and pumped five shots in his ass. His body then disintegrated into burning ash and dust that fizzled as his remains fell into the water. I kept on moving ahead when about two guys armed with automatic rifles and one unarmed one ran my way. I fired my hand guns killing the two of them and one of them lounged at me. I moved out of the way and allowed him to pass me. He landed in the water and lounged at me again. This time I pumped three shots into him and he disintegrated into ash and dust. I reloaded both of my handguns and continued running when my eyes caught another narrow concrete walkway. I jumped onto the surface and headed towards the corner. As I made it to the other side I was suddenly approached by two guys both armed with UZIs. Immediately I pointed my guns at them and fired away killing them both. I ran over their burnt remains and headed towards another corner. Suddenly about fourteen guys armed to the teeth came from the corner and darted towards my direction. I ran away as they fired their weapons at me with their rounds hitting the wall. I took cover behind the wall at the corner and fired at them from my handguns. I took out one of bloodsuckers, jumped in the water and ran across the other side firing away with both guns in my hand taking out two more. I started to pick up pace and jumped onto the surface another walkway. I picked up speed as I approached another corner. As soon as I arrived at this corner I was met by a sharp kick to my face which caused me to stagger back and fall into the water. I got up covered with all kind of shit that was floating around in that water and caught a glimpse of a guy with yellow eyes throwing punches and kicks at me. He punched me in the face and kneed in the chest. I fell back into the water on my ass and was given another kick in the face. I fell on my back bleeding from my mouth and saw him aiming to stomp my face with his boot. I turned away as the guy's dirty boot made a big splash. I got up on my feet and saw him swing his foot to my body. I grabbed his leg, pulled out a stake and stabbed him in the chest. He then disintegrated into ash and dust. I then realised I didn't had my two handguns anymore. I heard the guys' voices echoing from my right and started to run again.
I made it the other corner, pulled out my fully automatic flashlight mounted H&K 416 and cocked it for the coming event. I took off my trench coat and waited for those assholes to come as close as possible to endure the most damage. I could hear the splashing of their footsteps from about two feet away from me. I then turned, pointed my rifle into their direction and squeezed the trigger. Seven of them were hit which nearly caused a huge fireball when they turned into ash and dust. Five behind them scattered away and took up defensive positions and fired their weapons at me. I took cover and fired away again with the rounds chipping away at their defence lines. I picked myself up and started to run away down a tunnel. I heard the splashing of the bloodsuckers' feet as they started to run after me. I was about a couple of feet away from the pursuing five when I ran into about five more armed bloodsuckers running in my direction. I stopped abruptly and started firing away from my rifle left to right hitting them all. Their burning remains created a wall of fire as they disintegrated and I ran through getting my skin scorched. Bullets from the five other bloodsuckers flew over my head and struck the wall at my right and other bullets splashed upon impact as they struck the water behind me. I spun around and fired away killing one of the guys. I pulled out the empty clip and fastened a new one and headed towards a corner at my right. I jumped onto the walkway, hid behind the wall and took a squat. The four pursuers were now coming to my direction aiming their weapons at my position. With one hand I fired my H&K 416 at them killing them all.
It seemed like it was all over when I suddenly heard the splashing of footsteps echoing down the route where I ran from. From the left came approximately twenty guys armed with H&K UMP 45 submachine guns and H&K G36K assault rifles running towards. I then picked myself up and ran. Bullets were fired from behind me hitting all over the place. Luckily, none hit me. I then heard a thud from the ceiling of the sewer and I spun around to discover that the pursuing bloodsuckers were starting to scale the walls to get me. I fired away killing about three of them. I ran to another corner and peered from behind the wall. In an instant my eyes caught a glimpse of five of them squatting on the ceiling and both sides of the wall firing their weapons at me. I pulled away as the rounds hit the wall and the water. I ran again and turned into another corner. I reached into my pocket and pulled out a round device. I pressed the button in the middle which made the device give out a long, eerie beep and threw it in down the pathway I came from. I then ran down the pathway as I heard the splashing and the thuds of the pursuing bloodsuckers behind me. I reached another corner and hid behind the wall. I peered to catch a glimpse of the pursuing force down the pathway. I saw about five guys about to make a move into my direction. Suddenly there was a loud bang and a huge flash of light. I pulled away as the light spread to my direction. The screams of the bloodsuckers echoed throughout the sewer which sent chills down my spine. The bright light went out and the screams stopped. I looked back and saw that the sewer was back the way it was before: dark. I ran back to the direction of the bright light and saw the charred remains of the bloodsuckers floating around. The cause of this was the M1 flash bang given to me by Ed Norris of the bounty hunters/ vampire hunters called the Road Dogs. If anyone stood in the way if this thing discharged they would suffer permanent blindness.
Suddenly I heard splashing again coming from the left of the pathway. I started to back away when my I saw about more than forty guys armed with fully and semi-automatic weapons running in my direction. I turned around and picked up paste going into the pathway I was before. The pursers in the front row fired their weapons at me chipping away both sides of the walls. I went into the pathway where I was hiding and down into the other corner. The pathway was long and dark as the sewer itself. The pursuers were far from behind me when I arrived at the end. To my horror it was a dead. My heart dropped at the sight of the 6 feet, 3inch tall concrete wall. I then looked back at the other corner and heard the pursuers coming into my direction. For the first time I was paralysed in fear. I immediately thought of Danny the fact that he may not know that I was about to die at that moment. I wasn't given a chance to enjoy life. I came to the conclusion that it was my destiny to die at that moment. I couldn't take them all and I had only one clip that was almost empty. I accepted the fact that this is how death was supposed to be like.
As about five of them arrive at the corner drawing their weapons, suddenly I caught a glimpse of a figure in black moving faster than the speed of light. I heard the sound of slicing coming through the pursuers. When the figure passed through them ten of them turned into ash and dust. The pursers would fire on this figure and all the while the figure would turn into a blur every time it moved. It stopped for a minute at the corner and the pursuers ran towards it. It started swiping something in its right hand that blurred the moment the pursuers reached up towards the figure. The object the figure had turned ten more of the pursuers into ash and dust. At lightening speed the figure went after the last remaining figures. Armed with what appeared to be a long curved blade on a black handle the figure stabbed five of the pursuers, chopped seven across their bodies and beheaded eight more. In approximately five minutes it was all over. The ash and the dust from the pursuers were floating around me. I looked up and standing in front of me was the black figure. It was standing about two feet away from drenched with sewerage water. The figure had the shape of a teenaged girl about the same height as me. She had short, jet black hair, chalky pale skin and piercing yellow eyes that glowed in the dark. She was wearing a long black trench coat that was draped over a skin-tight full body suit. Through her leather body suit I could see that she was well built with rippling muscles. In her right hand she had a long sword with a curved blade and a black handle. I looked up at her face which had a very stern look. Even though she virtually saved my life, that look told me I was next. I pointed my H&K 416 at her and fired shots into her. She staggered back as the rounds entered her body. I then noticed that as the bullets struck her she was bleeding from her wounds very much like a human. She stood still and to my surprise the wounds started to close up with the blood going back in. In total disbelief I pointed my gun again only to discover I was out of bullets. She walked up close to me and I pulled out a stake and stabbed her in her heart. She looked at the blade and looked at me. I was in total shock. If she was a vampire surely she would've turned into ash by now. Without warning she grabbed me by the hair and flung me down the pathway. I was sent flying until I fell into the mossy water. I got up looked back and saw her walking towards me with the stake still in her chest. I got up and stabbed her in her right eye with another stake. I pressed it into her eye socket as hard and deep as I could. I backed away and to my horror she pulled the stake out of her chest and the other stake in her eye. I then spun around and started to run. I tried as fast as I could in the mossy water. Behind my back I could hear the girl in hot pursuit after me. I heard the sound of her jumping out of the water and a deep whoosh followed and I sensed that she was right over my head. Suddenly I felt a sharp blow behind my head. My eyes got heavy and I started to fall down. Before I hit the water everything turned black.