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Chapter 27: The Good News
In the lower levels, Blade unsheathed his sword and parried two combatants with clubs, and then whirled around, deflecting gunshots from a third with the flat of his sword. Grimwood was furious to say the least, his men tripping all over themselves. Growling furiously, he grabbed an antique battleaxe secured on the wall. He saw an opening and swung at Blade's head, who dropped in time for the axe to slice through one of Grimwood's own men.
In an eye-blink, Blade was up again, advancing on the massive vampire. He was cutting down another familiar, pushing forward, and cutting down even more without a care or second glance until he and Grimwood were face to face. Grimwood swung his axe again, but Blade hooked his sword beneath it, flipping it out of Grimwood's hands. Sweeping his sword around in a wide arc, Blade cut straight through Grimwood's mid-section. The upper half of Grimwood's body toppled away.
But something was wrong. He was still alive, running forward on his hands, trailing viscera! He sprung up at Blade, all claws and gnashing teeth. Blade caught Grimwood by his throat, whirled him around, and manages to impale what was left of the vampire with his sword-point. Grimwood turned to ash in Blade's arms. The only thing left were his steel teeth, which clattered to the floor at Blade's feet.
Abby paused in one of the various hallways, slipping her earplugs in and turning on her MP3 player. The bumping-strains of Fluke's Absurd track kicked in. She unclipped her UV Arc, and telescoped it outward. She moved through the corridors with mathematical precision, feeling the music in her bones, slicing through every vampire she encountered with deadly efficiency.
All the while her face remained blank, taking on the hordes of vampires and human Familiars that continued coming out of every doorway. She would punch one in the solar plexus, decapitate another, and finish off the rest with ease. Quickly moving on, she took down five more vampires with her rapid-fire stake dispenser, throwing stakes with blinding speed.
After a half-dozen stakes, her dispenser was empty. Without missing a beat, she pressed a tab on the dispenser, ejected the clip, and then reached to her belt where a backup was secured and slapped it in place. The mayhem continued even as she found Drake's quarters, entered it to find Zoë and Max chained to the floor.
"Abby!" Zoë shouted happily.
In a flash, Abby flung two silver stakes at the two vampire guards standing nearby. Both stakes hit their mark and the vampires crumpled to ash. After hurrying over to the two, Abby shot apart the locks on Max and Zoë's shackles. Zoë immediately wrapped her arms around the hunter, hugging her tightly.
"Come on, hon. Let's get you out of here," Abby said as she took Zoë by the hand, pulling her towards the door.
"One o'clock!" Max shouted. Abby, without even turning around, quickly killed the vampire behind her with the Arc. "Where's King?" she asked fearfully.
"I don't know," she replied breathlessly. "I lost track of him."
"Fuck!" she hissed in frustration, and then knelt down to Zoë's level. "Zoë, you're going to go with Abby, okay?"
"Here you go, honey," Abby said soothingly, handing her a squirt gun with a mixture of holy water, garlic, and silver nitrate. "You know what to do with that?"
"I remember," she replied with a nod.
"Good girl," she said approvingly, smiling at her briefly before looking at Max darkly. "Let's go. You find King. I've got to help Blade. Daystar's finished."
"First piece of good news I've heard all fucking night. See you two later," she said with a nod, cocking the gun Abby gave her and ran off in the opposite direction, hoping to find King.
P.S.: Two pages total.