Chapter 7
Iscariot
Rome, Italy
Heinkel Wolfe watched as the twenty helicopters flew in, each carrying large crates from the window. She turned to the Swiss Guard and yelled, "Get His Holiness out of the city now!" The Guards ran off to fetch His Holiness Pope Victor VI. His Holiness was guarded on all sides as he was rushed through the Hall. The helicopter's crates all dropped throughout the city. "HURRY!" Heinkel yelled as she got in front of the Guards who all took out their guns. "Is this truly necessary?" His Holiness asked, barely keeping up with his guard's pace, his 77 years were slowing him down. "It is Your Holiness; I have reports that large groups of helicopters were spotted over Detroit and Rio de Janeiro before all Hell broke loose. That must be how Plasmius has transported his ghouls!" Heinkel assured him.
Heinkel then ordered two of the Swiss Guard to carry the Pope. As they reached his personal helicopter fires started all over the city as screams could be heard in the air. "Heinkel! Protect the People, get as many out as you can," His Holiness ordered. "It will be done Your Holiness," Heinkel said and bowed then kissed his ring. "Get him out of here!" Heinkel ordered the pilot and the helicopter took off. Heinkel ran off the Heliport and right into the street below on her feet. Heinkel listened for where the screams were loudest and ran in that direction. Crowds of people ran in the opposite direction she was headed, and gunfire rang out.
She eventually got to a line of police officers all screaming as they struggled to keep the ghouls back, barely keeping them off the innocents behind them. Heinkel drew her handguns and jumped over the police barricade. With a hoarse yell she shot every ghoul she saw in the head, it wasn't easy, but every ghoul she shot turned to dust. Heinkel stopped to reload and stepped forward, shooting at ghouls as she strode forward. Heinkel reloaded again and continued the slaughter. "Ottenere i civili alla sicurezza!" Heinkel yelled at the Police, Get the civilians to safety! The Police saw that she had the situation handled and listened to the Regenerator. Heinkel saw that she had cleared the area of ghouls and ran throughout the streets, shooting at ghouls as she went.
Eventually she reached Santa Maria Maggiore and saw the old church was already in ruins, and saw people laughing. No; not people, vampires. Heinkel yelled out as she drew her katana from her coat and decapitated one of the monsters before she realized what had happened. "Come you monsters," Heinkel Wolfe pointed her bloody sword at the five other vampires, "Come and face the Wrath of God Almighty!" Three of the vampires screeched and ran right at her. Little did they realize the power of a Regenerator, Heinkel grasped her sword and with a vicious yell sliced through all three of them before they could reach her. Heinkel then drew one of her handguns and shot a fourth that was coming from her side and turned around and elbowed the fifth that was coming at her back, then kicked him back and decapitated him as well.
Heinkel then saw the last two vampires, two tall teenagers staring at her. She glared at them and the two turned to run, only for Heinkel to kill one with a headshot and shoot the other through his spine. Heinkel walked over to the last vampire; shooting his spine three more times to make sure he couldn't run away. Heinkel finally reached him and flipped him over to see his face. He was a pimply faced boy with black hair and too many piercings in his nose, his mouth covered in the blood of others. "You can go quickly," Heinkel said, pointing her gun at his head, "Or not," she then aimed at his groin. "Tell me where your master is, where is Vlad Plasmius?" Heinkel asked, repeating the question in German and Italian. The teenage vampire only glared at her and said in English, "Fuck you, bandage faced bitch!"
Heinkel glared at him and shot him in his groin twice, then shot both knees for good measure. The teenage vampire screamed in pain. "WHERE IS PLASMIUS!?" Heinkel yelled. The teenage vampire groaned in pain but didn't answer, so Heinkel stomped on one of his knees. The vampire screamed again and yelled, "MAKE IT STOP!" "ANSWER THE QUESTION!" Heinkel yelled. "He's going after the Pope's helicopter," the teenage vampire said, and smiled with his blood stained teeth. Heinkel shot him in his forehead, and ran back where she came and got on her headpiece, "PLASMIUS IS AFTER HIS HOLINESS!" Heinkel then heard a scream on the other end and heard an explosion in the distance. Heinkel dropped to her knees.
No, not again! NOT AGAIN! She stomped her fists on the pavement below as Rome burned around her. She had failed once again. Heinkel realized that ghouls surrounded her. Rage boiled inside of her, her hatred for herself for failing, and for Vlad Plasmius lent her strength as she swung her sword all around her, killing every ghoul around her. She then shot more with her gun and roared out, "PERDERE DAEMONIUM!" Her sword glowed blue and she put her handgun away, using only her katana as she sliced through the countless hordes of ghouls around her. Her blade sliced through them all like a hot knife through butter. After fighting all throughout Rome for hours Heinkel stopped and saw that she was the last thing alive in the city.
Her sword ceased to glow and she put it back in her coat. She suddenly heard movement and realized that she was in front of a miraculously undamaged church, San Clemente. She had been so focused on killing ghouls that she hadn't noticed her surroundings at all. She drew her gun and saw that there were people coming out of the church. They all looked at her warily. Heinkel remembered what Pope Victor VI told her, Protect the People. Heinkel looked at them and told them, "Non è più al sicuro qui. Abbiamo bisogno di lasciare ore. Afferare solo quello che serve, e vieni." It is no longer safe here. We need to leave now. Grab only what you need, and come. The people in San Clemente all looked at her fearfully but did as she said, following her out of Rome. "This is Heinkel Wolfe, where is the nearest safe zone? I have civilians with me," she said into her headpiece.
She was answered by a voice that told her, "The nearest spot will be in Naples. We're sending a convoy to you now Wolfe." Heinkel nodded and led the people out of Rome and on the road to Naples. "Wolfe, what about His Holiness?" the voice asked her. "He didn't make it," she said, and turned the headpiece off. She didn't want to talk about it right now.