Dance in the vampire bund: The turtle doves of the vampire bund
By Nikolao
Chapter 7: Red Beauty
Plague was chasing the rogue vampire and they're chase took them to the high residental part of the city. Plague had him on sight but barely, the vampire had a small head start before him and Plague had a hard time keeping up with the vampire, turning street corner after street corner just barely keeping him on sight, if he loses him the whole operation would be done for. Suddenly a voice was heard via a small radio attached to his belt hidden below his trenchcoat:
„The cleanup is done...what is your status? Over" It was the mummified woman, Plaque grabs the radio while running, holding it tightly in his arm, if he drops it it would mean forcing him to chase down the vampire without assistance or backup from anyone
„Beauty...I need you here now, he's getting away! Over" He shouts at the radio
„Roger that boss...what is your location? Over" the mumified woman asks
„Ummm...looks like we are heading north-west in the residential area towards the city center, he could be aiming to lose us in the crowd, we must divert him somewhere before that happens, otherwise we are gonna lose him! Over"
The vampire stops suddenly, looks at the passageway in the building and bolts inside.
„He is going inside a building" he stops at he entrance of the pasasageway and looks up „It looks like a 10 story building with a siemens sign on the top, over"
„Roger that, I am 4 buildings behind, be at the top in a couple of minutes, over" the woman responds
„Where are you? Over" Plague asks her, turns behind expecting to see her from afar in the alley
„Look up and high boss!" She shouted on the radio
Plaque looks up and sees a small dot in the distance, jumping between buildings, it was the mummified girl, sprinting on the rooftops and jumping larger distance between buildings, no normal human being is able to make those jumps. Plague bolts inside the building while saying to the radio
„Alright...keep him at bay, if you cut his path but don't engage him...keep him busy untill I come, do you hear me? Over?" There was no response on the radio „Damit!" he shouts and continues up the stairs.
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The mummified woman jumps on the edge of the building with the siemens sign, checking out the area she sees the closed door leading down to the hallway on the last floor. The door opens and the vampire runs out, he stops in front of her, looks behind for a second but realises that it would be futile to run back as he will surely meet Plaque somewhere on the way down, so he brings his attention back at the mumified face woman. She did not have her red wide hat, the wind blew the hat away from her head exposing her nordic white hair while jumping across buildings.
„Th...that...was my third hat I lost chasing you" The woman spoke first trying to get some breath from running and jumping „Do you even know how expensive they are?"
„After I'm done with your ugly ass face your fucking hat will be the least of your problems" The vampire was not amused at all, he was mad and tired from running all day.
He bolts at her, lifting his left leg for a high kick, she dodges the hit by crouching and hits him in the nutsack, he covers his lower part of body in pain and drops in a kneeling position, his face becomes red in a matter of seconds. He looks up to her only to see her red boot hiting his face, he falls on the ground. The woman goes to the door to check on Plague but he was not here yet, she hopes that Plaque wont mind her engaging the vampire despite his orders not to, the vampire regains his consciousness but before he can get up the woman press his chest with her boot to stop him from getting up.
„My reports indicate that you are very dangerous but so far I am not very impressed" The mumified woman says
„Hehe...and...my...reports say a lot about your lineage...Miss Red Beauty" The vampire responded with a smirk on his face
„What do you even know about my lineage!?" She asks while applying pressure on his chest with her boot
„I know...all about you...I know who your mother was" He answers while smiling, the woman looks at him, she was surprised by his answer
„I know what beauty she possesed, the body she had, all the males that wanted her, that craved for her, she was a true beauty." He paused and then continued „Then she gave birth to a freak of a baby, a monster that had to hide her face from everyone, a face that made even the bravest of all brave men become cowards in a split of a second"
„Shut up! You are lucky Plaque needs you for info! Otherwise by now you would be dead!" She shouted
„You were her darkest secret, her hidden shame, she was ashamed to have such an ugly monster for her daughter, even your father was too ashamed to show his ugly face and admit you as his daughter" He continued to press her buttons
„Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" She shouted in frenzy while hiting his chest with her boots
Plague appears at the door holding his gun, Beauty looks at him, she was is a frenzy state of mind that she even forgot the mission and about Plague, suddenly the vampire grabs her boot that was hitting his chest and twist her leg in the side, she fells down and the vampire uses that moment to get behind her and grabs her neck from behind, pulls her up and turns her towards Plague who was holding them on gunpoint with a dart gun.
„Let her go...there is nowhere to run" Plague says in a commanding tone
„I dont think you are in any position to give me any orders since I have an ultimate psychic weapon in my hands" he was refering to her face „Now...let's see that wonderous effect you have on men when they lay they're eyes on you" The vampire draws a knife out with his other hand and places the knife on her neck.
„Now don't do anything stupid while I unwrap this on her face. If you move a muscle I will cut her neck, if you look away I will cut her like a lamb" He says that while unwrapping the mumified face
„I'm...I'm so...sorry for this" The woman says to Plague
„Hey...look at me...everything is going to be alright" Plague tries to reassure her
Rogue vampire removes the tape and takes a step backwards saying „Voila". Beauty closes her eyes, takes a deep breath while asking
„So...how do I look?
„You look wonderfull...as beautiful as always" Plague answers. Beauty opens her eyes and her cheeks begin to blush
„T...thank you" she answers silently
„What the fuck? What is the meaning of this?" The vampire asks still standing behind her, she starts to turn her face towards the vampire
„No! Don't! We still need him for information!" Plague stops her
Plague lifts his dart gun and shoots, hitting him in the right shoulder, the vampire shouts „What the fuck is this now!" He takes a few steps back, looks behind him and jumps down the building. Plague runs to the edge to check on him only to see a truck carrying a load of wheat...the vampire fell on the cargo container filled with wheat.
„Lucky bastard!" Plague says and then he goes back to check on Beauty
Red Beauty was lying on the ground, holding her leg and panting in pain. Plague crouches alongside her, starts to feel up her leg that was twisted.
„Oouch!" She shouted, after a couple of feels and shouts Plague says
„Well...good news is your leg is not broken, bad news is that you will have to rest for a couple of days untill your muscles recover."
„Why are you still here then? Go ahead after him, you're gonna lose him" She says in a harsh voice
„I am not leaving anyone behind, especialy not you...you should know that by now" His answer was short but also strict, she looks at him with a slightly happy and both painfull expressions on her face. „Besides...he is not going to escape now since I shot him with a tracking dart" He says that while raising his dart gun in front of his partner.
Plaque raises his head and turns his attention on his partner, looking directly at her face without being affected by the effects of her powers. He was staring at her for a couple of seconds, those seconds didn't mean much for him, but it meant an eternity for her. She speaks first.
„See anything you like?" She asks in a flitatious manner
„You look as beautiful as ever" Plaque answers without any hesitation in his voice
„T...thank you" She turns her blushing face away from him while saying
„You really know how to make a girl blush...but you don't have to force yourself to look at my face and tell me words I want to hear." Plague puts his hands on her cheeks, turns her head to face his while saying
„I'm not telling you what you want to hear...I'm telling you what I want you to know...the truth"
„Yes, the truth. Truth that nobody can know except you" She responds and then continues
„Tell me something...why is that only you can see my true face? Only you have not been affected by my curse"
„I don't have the answer to that question or to all the other questions about me, but let me correct you on something...your true beauty is not a curse, but your strength...remember that"
Beauty grabs Plaque down by his hips, closing him towards her, like she is trying to steal a kiss from him but in the last moment he stops her
„We can't...I can't" She looks to him for a second with a sad expression on her face and then she pulls him for a hug while saying
„I know...I know...I'm sorry for wanting more than we already have. I'm sorry for wanting to take you from her...she probably hates me for this"
„No...she probably hates me more for not going forward in my life" He answers back
Plague stops the hug first, gets up and grabs his radio
„Plaque calling Nightingale...come in Nightingale, over" After a brief pause there was a female voice
„This is Nightingale, what do you need? Over"
„I need you to come to this radio location and pick up Beauty...she is injured, muscle strain, over"
„Roger that Plague, be there ASAP,over" The female voice answers
Plaque puts the radio on Beauty's hand and grabs the mummy tape to wrap on her face, after he was done he puts his hand on her shoulder for a moment and then gets up and starts to walk towards the door leading back in the building.
„Go get that bastard!" She shouted behind him, he raised his right hand and made a thumbs up signal.
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Catherine was sitting in the infirmary, putting pressure on the wound. Yuki went to find the nurse in the teacher's lounge but the nurse was not there, so she decided to take the matter in her own hands, she exits the lounge and sees a fire axe in the display case, she hits the display case a couple of times with her elbows before breaking the glass and grabs the axe, then she rushes back to the infirmary to break open one of the cabinets. On her way back she notices a strange looking man running ahead in the hallway, checking classroom doors one by one. Eventualy he enters the infirmary. He busts open the door, Catherine looks at him. The man was wearing shade glasses and a brown coat, it was the vampire that fought Plaque and Beauty. At first he was not interested in Catherine but as soon as he smelled the scent of blood in the air filling the room his eyes got red and his fangs were showing.
„Excuse me...do you know where the nurse is? I have a little emergency here?" Catherine asks the man, he takes his glasses of and looks at her with his red eyes and shows her a big grin on his face with his fangs out.
„Oh honey...I'm not a doctor...but I think I may be able to help you with that wound if you let me"
Catherine notices the leacherous look on his face and looks at him with disgust
„Get away from her you monster!" A female voice was heard behind, the vampire turns his head back only to see the tip of the axe coming to his face, he moves to the left to avoid but the axe hits his shoulder. He drops down, Catherine screams in panic and runs out the hallway.
„Hey! Wait!" Yuki shouts to Catherine, she was just about to run after her but she feels something grabing her leg, it was the vampire, she tries to pull her leg but with no result.
„I guess I will just have to settle with you bitch!" The vampire shouts at Yuki
Yuki grabs and pulls out the axe that was still stuck in his shoulder, the vampire screams in pain, letting her leg go, Yuki uses the moment and runs in the hallway after Catherine, unsure of her location she decides it's better to inform Mina and Akira about the vampire running wild on school grounds.
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Catherine opens the door to the girls bathroom, runs to the last bathroom stall and locks it. She was in utter shock and her breathing was loud and rapid, a minute later the outer bathroom door opens and closes, footsteps could be heard coming closer and closer, the sound of stall doors opening one by one, coming closer and closer untill it was reached to her stall, someone tries to pull it but it was locked.
„So...here you are at last" The vampire spoke „Come out of there, don't make me come in"
„G...get away from me you freak...or...or...else!" Catherine shouted in panic, trying to scare him away
„Or else what? Haaa? You gonna make me go away?" The vampire asked in a playful manner
„Or else...I'm going to drag your ass out!" Another voice was heard
The vampire turned his attention towards the entrance to the bathroom, Catherine twitched as she heard a another voice coming from outside of the stall. At the other side of the bathroom Plague was standing and blocking the only exit from the bathroom.
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Mina was holding the sledgehammer tightly in her hands while keeping an eye on Anna who was completely stunned by Mina's little performance, she is trying to figure out is Mina bluffing or being serious about breaking the polarized glass. Mina was in a hurry to find out everything she can about Anna and was clearly agitated that Anna is still not rattled enough by her threats. She swings the sledgehammer towards the glass and hits it as hard as she can, the glass buckled which made Anna even more nervous.
„Hey now! Don't be foolish, that glass is not indestructible!" Anna tried to warn Mina
„I know...so tell me...who do you work for...and what is your mission?" Mina asked
Anna remained quiet, Mina sees that it is still not enough pressure, so she swings again and hits the glass again on the same spot, this time the glass buckled with a slight sound of cracking.
„Who do you work for!?" Mina shouted the question
Anna is still silent, watching Mina straight in the eyes...trying not to let her break her, Mina swings again and hits the third time, there are crackes forming.
„Answer me!" Mina shouted
Anna was still not giving any reaction to the sound of glass cracking
„I will break this window and kill both of us if you dont..." Mina was interrupted by Anna before she could finish
„Go ahead! Break it! Break the goddamned glass! Kill yourself! At least then I will be able to steal him back from your evil clutches! You think you can scare me with your empty threats?" Ana shouted
„Stealing back? Who?" Mina was a bit confused but still not enough to let her guard down
„You took him from me! You took his body, his soul, his heart, his hopes and dreams...his freedom!" Anna answered
„Are you...talking about A...Akira?" Mina asked clearly confused
„I'm not talking about your fucking dog...I was referring to..." Anna was interrupted by the sound of further glass cracking, the window was about to break. Mina also noticed that, she turned her attention to the window for a split of a second but then she realised Anna jumping towards her.
„Watch out!" Anna shouted while leaping on Mina
The cracks cover the window in a matter of seconds, then the whole glass breaks and falls down...letting the sunlight from outside fill the room.
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„I am fucking tired of you chasing me all fucking day! Why dont you just get the fuck away from me?!" The vampire shouted
„Now at least you know how your victims feel when chased by you" Plague answers
„That's it!" The vampire lost his patience and sprints towards Plaque, Plaque gets ready by keeping an eye to his approach. The vampire jumps at him, Plague grabs him by his legs in the air and falls down on his back, the vampire hits his head on one of the sinks, Plaque gets up, grabs the vampire by his hair and starts to hit his head on the sink numerous times, the vampire hits Plaque on his right cheek with his elbow freeing himself from the grip, both of them were bleeding, but the vampire looked far worse than Plaque. They both paused for a bit.
„Tell me something...do you know where can I find a vampire called Lucious?" Plague asked
„What? Lucious?" The vampire paused and then made a smirk on his face while saying „You'l never stop my master...he will make sure you all burn, he will walk on the sun while all of you burn under the rays of his majesty...the king of all vampires...ruler of the night and the light...and the world! "
„Hehh...typical...looks like every asshole I meet these days wants to take over the world" Plague says.
The vampire growls and sprints towards Plague. Plague notices a hidden knife sliding from the vampire's sleeve, he sprints to meet him, they both collide. For a few short seconds they stand still, looking at each other straight in the eyes, eventually the vampire takes a few steps back, leans to the wall and starts to slide down, leaving a trail of blood on the wall, he looks down, the knife was buried deep in his chest, right where the heart is. Plague pulls out a sawed-off one-barrel shotgun from under his trenchcoat, then he reaches for his pocked, pulls out a shotgun shell, he swings the shotgun to open the loading chamber and puts the shell inside, then he swings up the shotgun, closing the chamber.
„At least...Te...Tell me the name of the man that sent me to my creator in hell" The vampire asks
„Tell your master in hell that Jack Matters send his regards" Plague answers and pulls the trigger, blowing the vampire's head of.
Jack was standing over the body for a second, then he starts to check the pockets on the corpse for some leads, he founds a piece of paper, he read the contents of the paper, his eyes went wide but then he was interrupted by the sound of the stall at the end of the bathroom opening. He quickly puts the paper in his pocket for later and turns his attention on the girl at the other side.
„It's okay...you can come out of there...I'm not going to hurt you" Plague says that while approaching the stall.
Catherine opens the door and starts to slowly exit the stall, she looks at Plaque, he looks at her, they pause for a second. Plague takes a good look, his eyes went wide while he says
„Cathy!?"
Catherine's eyes fills with tears while she shouts in confusion and uncertainty
„Dad!?"