Alarms rang throughout the room, light flashing in the night. Vash started, his hand reaching for the empty holster at his side. He looked around the room, his ears ringing with the alarms, eyes pierced by the flashing red lights. Quickly entering the password, he disabled the alarms that had woken him up. He checked the monitors around the wall, trying to find the cause of the alarms.
His eyes widened when he saw why.
Nearly all of his perimeter alarms had been triggered. The entire forest surrounding his house was covered with intruders, about four of them. There would only be one reason for so many people trying to enter his house that this time of night. He was under attack, someone had sent an army after him, and someone was trying to kill him. Leaping from his seat he ran to the weapons rack, stopping only long enough to pick up a Sauer GSR, a silencer for the gun and enough ammo for the people going towards his house. He didn't bother stopping for any of his body armour, he didn't have enough time. The hostiles were already too close. He left the room, stopping only long enough to lock up the room. Lili was in the house, and he would kill everyone before they laid a single finger on her.
He ran up the stairs, his face stern and silent. He so dearly wanted to shout out, to see if Lili was alright. But he didn't dare, he didn't know if they knew that Lili was in the house, and the last thing he wanted to do was to subject her to a bloodbath. He slowed down when he reached the top of the staircase, taking care to hide the sound of his footsteps, to not alert the attackers of his position. He crept out of the wardrobe that hid the staircase, pistol held out before him. He waited at the door to the study, listening for the attackers. The first few should have reached the house by now, and would begin searching the house. Vash's first goal was to get to Lili and make sure she is safe. She was the top priority right now; he had to get her out of here. Footsteps echoed in the hallway outside of the study, the first of the many people here to die tonight. The footsteps were soon followed by the sounds of lightening and rain, the spaces behind the curtains flashing with lightning.
Cracking open the study, Vash peered into the dark hallway, searching for the enemy. He saw the back of the first intruder, looking into the laundry just down the hallway, carrying what appeared to be an AK47 at his side. Vash crept out of the study, his pistol ready at his side, his feet barely making a whisper on the floor. Quickly crossing the distance between them, Vash placed the pistol at the base of the man's neck. Vash gagged at the stench of the man, a mix of alcohol and filth. The man turned to face Vash, realising with horror just what lay before him. He opened his mouth to, probably to beg for mercy.
But Vash didn't even give him the chance. Blood sprayed across the wall, as the bullet pierced the man's skull and scattered his brain on the floor. Vash caught the man as he fell, laying him quietly on the ground to muffle the sound. He wiped his bloodied hands on the man's clothing, cleaning his Sauer as well. He checked his white shirt, also stained with blood, but there was nothing he could do about that now.
Vash walked down the hallway, crouching down to make his body less visible. He leant around the corner, checking the entrance hallway. He wasn't able to see anyone there, but he knew there should at least be on other person in the house, most likely in the dining hall or living room. Knowing his luck there would most likely be one in each. Vash decided that he would deal with the dining room first, then move onto the living room.
He crouched down low, walking swiftly on silent feet towards the dining room. He slipped into the room quickly, holding to the shadows and keeping to the wall. The dining hall was dark; Vash having turned off the house lights when he had went down into the lair. The kitchen light was on though, a tell-tale sign that someone was searching it. He swept towards the kitchen door, a shadow lurking within the dark. He examined the kitchen, and the man inside. He was different from the man before. This one was large, wide at the girth, and he was currently filling his mouth from Vash's pantry. This angered Vash, beyond the calm anger of someone daring to attack his home, tot eh anger of a person violated. This person would dare to intrude his home, threaten his sister, and then proceed to stuff his face with his food. Absolutely outrageous!
He didn't even bother this time to get close and try and catch the man's fall. He aimed and without warning shot. This time Vash was feeling vindictive, and wanted this pig to suffer. How dare he eat his cheese! The bullet pierced his jugular, blood spurting out spraying the area with a fine red mist. The man collapsed to the ground, his hand to his throat as he tried to keep his lifeblood within him. But for all his writhing was for naught, for no matter pressure he put, nothing could stop him from bleeding out.
Not wasting time, Vash left the dining hall, leaving the other man dead on the kitchen floor. He was quick to leave the dining hall that he didn't look ahead of him. He shot out of the dining hall and straight into the last man searching the bottom floor. The both crumbled into a mess on the floor, Vash's pistol skidding across the floor one way, the attacker's rifle another. It took Vash a few seconds to realise what had just happened, long enough for the other man to get his hands around Vash's neck, who was under him. It didn't take long for the man to start to chock the life out of Vash, who was thrashing on the floor underneath him.
This wasn't how Vash was going to die. He wasn't going to die on the ground, being chocked by a common thug to death. He still had Lili to protect, to make sure that she grew up and led a better life than he had. He stopped his thrashing about, calming his body. He knew that he couldn't waste energy on trying to force his way out, but would have to rather rely on cunning. The attacker loosened his grip on Vash's next, his small intellect confused by the sudden cease of struggling. This was the only opening Vash required to win. Vash reached to the knife at his belt, quickly drawing and slashing upwards. The attacker fell back, his chest cut deeply and bleeding profusely, dousing Vash again in more blood.
Vash pushed the man off of him, who was still in shock from having been slashed so suddenly from what he thought a defeated enemy. Vash took quick work of the dazed man. Pushing him onto the ground and on his back, he took his knife and cut his throat, ending his miserable existence. Getting to his feet, Vash checked his shirt, and was dismayed to see that it was drenched in blood. This was one of his finest shirts, sewn by Lili herself, and there was no way he would be able to get the blood out now. But that doesn't matter now, there was only one person left, and he was most likely waiting outside.
As he was going over to pick up his pistol, a scream ripped throughout the house, shattering Vash's heart. He picked up his pistol, then running to the stairs, leaping up them four at a time. His heart was beating so hard against his chest that it blotted out nearly all other sound, his world reduced to a frantic beating of heart and feet. He was wrong on were the final attacker was, he wasn't waiting outside, he had begun to search the top floor ahead of the others.
As he ran he began to hear the voice of the final attacker, "Well, well, well, what do we have here?" another scream followed. Vash doubled his pace, sprinting with all of his might.
Vash burst through the door as these words were said, "Don't scream little girl, we're just going to have some fun." The final man was standing before Lili's bed, leering down at her. She was pushed up against the bed's back, trying to pull her pyjama bottoms over her hips, the man having pulled them.
A snarl emanated from Vash's voice, like a beast from the forest. He launched himself at the man, who had turned around at the sound of Vash's snarl, his face covered in fear at the oncoming onslaught. Vash didn't bother to try to fight this man with his knife; the man that had dared to try to hurt his sister would suffer the most. He would die by his hands, wrapped around his throat. He wouldn't be sated until he had chocked the life out of this violator. Vash's leap dragged the other man to the ground, and a wrestle ensued. Vash had the advantage, having both the emotional and superior position, but the violator had a size advantage on Vash. They're fight was harsh, each trading blows, but it was clear to see that it was a one sided fight, Vash was absolutely beating the guy. It didn't take him long to get his hands the other man's neck.
"Do you know what you're first mistake was?" Vash snarled out of his teeth.
The man shook his head, spittle flying from his mouth as he was chocked.
"You dared to attack my house. Do you know what you're second mistake was?"
Again the man shook his head, eyes bulging.
"You thought that you could kill me. Do you know what your final mistake was, one that would get you killed?"
The man's head shook violently, his entire body shaking as he died from oxygen starvation.
Vash pulled the man's head up to his face, and through clenched teeth he said, "You dared to threaten my sister. You dare to hurt her. For that you will die." It was only a few more seconds before the man grew limp in his hands, the life throttled out of him. Vash stood over the body of the last attacked, the last of a group of men that he had killed, two with gunshots, one with a knife and the last by his hands. He disliked having to deal with all of these people at close range, getting blood on his fine clothes. He was still staring at the corpse at his feet when he heard a scream coming from the bed again.
He looked up from the body, towards Lili. She was even further back up the bed, her green eyes wide with both fright and horror. She dragged the bed covering up to her, shaking with fear, sweat dripping off of her. Vash stepped towards her, raising his arms out to her, but she screamed again, holding the beddings even tighter. He stepped back, aghast at the response he had gotten. He looked down at his shirt, seeing it blood drenched cloth, realising with horror just what she would be seeing. A man covered in blood, just having killed a man, reaching out towards her.
"Lili, it's me, Vash," he said to her, softening his voice.
"Big Brother?" she said, he voice dripping with fear.
Vash pulled of his bloodied shirt, leaving just a clean white shirt, his white shirt being good enough to keep all of the blood off of his undershirt. "It's alright Lili, all the bad people are gone now," he tried to soothe her.
She cried as he sat down on the bed, clinging on to him, "I was so scared big brother; you had all that blood…" She let out another sob.
"It's ok now," he whispered into her hair, "I've gotten rid of all of the bad people, they weren't hurt you anymore."
"But all that blood…"
"They were the bad men's. But we don't have time for this, we have to get going, our home is no longer safe."
She looked up at him with wide eyes, "But this is our home, Big Brother, where will we go?"
Vash got up from the bed, heading over to Lili's wardrobe, "I'll take you over to Mr Edelstine," he began, getting out Lili's robe, "After that I'll go found out what has happened."
"What about me Big Brother?" She asked, getting up and slipping on the robe when Vash handed it to her, taking care to not to look at the body at the front of the bed.
His hands around her shoulder, Vash led her out of her room, using his body to shield her from the horrific sight of his handy work. ""Mr Edelstine and Elizabeta will take care of you." They walked in silence through the rest of the house; the only sound between them was the rain beating on the roof and the thunder in the distance. Vash pushed Lili's head into his chest when they reached the bottom of the stairs, hiding the bloodied corpse of the man that he killed with his knife. He never wanted her to have to see him kill people, and he hopes with all his heart that his sister would forgive him after this.
They walked out the front door, into the thunderstorm raging across the mountain side. Vash stopped when he exited the house, trying to think of when he had made a mistake. Standing in the rain outside of the house, stood a man in a black kimono, holding out a katana to his side. "Lili, I want you to go back inside, and behind the door there is a rapier, I want you to go get it for me."
She did as he said, running back into the house, saying as she went, "Ok Big Brother."
Vash turned to the man in the kimono, staring at him hard, "So you are the one sent to kill me?"
The man bowed, saying "Yes."
Turning his head, looking down his nose, Vash commented, "I'm sorry to say that you won't be able to do that."
"I have it Big Brother," Lili shouted from behind him.
"Throw it to me," Vash replied, holding out his hand behind him. Lili threw the sword at him, catching it with one hand.
Vash readied the sword at before him, pointing at the Assassin sent after him, "Let us get this over and done with, I have somewhere to be."
"Let us fight then" The Assassin lowered his sword and charged at Vash.