The research on the nest was ancient history but Sam found the abandoned farm house right where the map said it would be. He had parked the Impala more than a mile down the road and had walked until the clearing. A couple faint lights shone from lower windows, they weren't showy but keeping a low profile didn't make them innocent. They watched in silence as one of the vampires drug what appeared to be a body wrapped in sheets into the house.
This would be the time to ask how many there were. Night was the worst time to go after them; it was when they were the strongest. Neither of them asked, neither of them even wondered. Sam gave her a nod and took out his gun, a pistol with the ammunition soaked in dead man's blood. She put her hand on the handle of the dagger as they moved in closer to the house.
There was no time to lurk. If they weren't distracted they surely already knew they were there. They could smell the blood, hear the heartbeats as they got closer to the house. Several voices could be heard inside and Kayla peered into one of the windows.
A man, well, vampire pulled a live woman out from the sheets and was tying her to a chair in the living room while three others stood nearby, waiting for the opportunity. Looks like dinner time. Four vamps visible so far.
Sam was apparently as trigger happy as she was and she had to jog to catch up to him as he walked straight through the front door. The vamps turned to them with surprised anger and no one moved for a few minutes.
In the midst of the silence Kayla heard movement from upstairs as well and pulled the dagger out. "Let's get started then huh?"
Before anyone could move a shot echoed off the walls and one of them staggered back with a straight shot through the forehead. He staggered to the ground, the effects of the blood running through his system.
Sam cocked the pistol.
"Nice shot."
The other three didn't waste time in attacking them. Hurried footsteps came down the stairs and they knew they were soon to have company. Sam put another shot into a second vampire before getting knocked down by a third.
The fourth vampire tackled Kayla to the ground, snarling at her like a dog while they wrestled for the knife. While thrashing she managed to put a cut across the thing's arm and it cried out in surprised pain, not expecting the sting of dead mans blood.
She jerked her hand free and drove the dagger into its heart with surprising ease. Ribs weren't as hard to get through as she'd thought. With a new sense of confidence she sprang to her feet in time to see a new player run into the room. Her aim was non existent with the adrenaline and she stabbed it in the base of the neck. Painful with the dead mans blood, but not fatal. She pulled it out and he staggered past her, holding his neck. As he past she stabbed him from behind, a quick, upward movement into its heart. Easier from behind.
The heart of the undead still performed its primary function; pumping blood to the rest of the body. As the poison slowed it down, she cut its head off and shoved the body over onto the floor. She looked over and saw that Sam had beaten her and already taken one out.
Two still moving, though weak as they were, they pinned Kayla to the ground and got her knife from her. Sam ran up on one and kicked it hard in the face before shoving the other one over. He pulled out his own weapon, what looked like a katana and loped the male's head off in some crazy highlander move.
The last one in the room, a woman, punched Sam square in the jaw. Kayla went at it with her knife but she kicked her in the side, Kayla stumbled back and swore she felt a rib crack. This chick was feistier than the rest but it didn't help her when Sam took her head off.
Hurried footsteps echoed through the halls towards the room and Sam handed her the katana. She stood silently near the doorframe and made a clean swipe as the vamp ran through, the head rolled effortlessly onto the floor. After that everything was quiet. Sam pointed up and they started making the rounds of the house.
The ground floor was empty and they moved quickly up the stairs. Sam counted the empty rooms as they went by them, one, two, three…he gave a loud grunt as he was stabbed in the arm and shoved against the wall. This was the coward of the group; the one who didn't run to help his comrades. Kayla stuck her dagger into the base of its neck and Sam did the rest.
No more movement, no more noise. The house was empty. Probably good for now, they should get the woman out of here. They went down the stairs and untied her, she seemed unharmed for the most part.
As they loaded everything into the trunk Kayla wiped the blood off her arm. "So what's next?"
"I say we find some demons. Someone's got to know something." He saw the look on the woman's face and stopped the hunting talk. "Mam we're gonna take you home."
She nodded nervously and got into the car.
They didn't bother making conversation with her, just took her home. The vamps had worked them over pretty good and they were tired, bloody, broken. But damn did it feel good.
