4.3 Vampires
Helmut stepped up to the hill slope that would lead
to his family castle. The once towering castle with its four towers that provide decades of early warning to its
occupants, but then had been reduced to one with a side wall that still stand
to hold the tower in its decaying state. The castle was ravaged by the bombings
during the war, with precision built in its system, but a man controlled
contraption still had its flaws. It destroyed but left the remnants to allow it
to grow again.
Like Medusa, the glory of the Von Kluck would grow
again. He felt the broadsword vibrate on his back, but he chose to ignore it.
If they were any foes here, it would best he fight them with the tower on his
back. More to it, he had traps set there with hidden stash of weapons. He
hurried his steps up the slope and then he picked up the scents.
It’s those hounds again. But there was more to them,
there were new scents.
Bloodthirsty ones.
The Vampires are back.
The last Vampire he killed was two years ago, when
he raided their lair in the area. It was an abandoned manor which he was to discover
had a deep cavern below its basement. He had stalked the place for two days and
nights, watching the demons movements and also their human followers. He had
counted four of the human followers who guard the place during the day while
the Vampires roamed at twilight. He had then fashioned up a series of daggers
from the bones of the creatures and also some wooden stakes. He crept up at
dawn and approached the just woken human follower. A figure dressed in the
fatigue of the United Continents, and armed with a rifle with some grenades.
The other guards are still inside while that one had taken to come out first.
The five Vampires that resided there had returned just before the break of
dawn.
Helmut had his fashioned bone dagger drawn and threw
it with precision onto the guard' chest. He rushed forth on the throw with his
broadsword drawn. His cut was precise to remove the head of the guard before he
could shout. Once he had killed the guard, he took the grenades and then threw
it aside.
They were not flash grenades.
Helmut went for the door. It was then the doorway
opened by another guard and was surprised to see the unknown there. The guards
surprise was removed with his throat pierced by the broadsword.
Helmut walked in and without hesitation; the two
guards were surprised by the intrusion. He jumped up and swung his broadsword
on the two guards and silencing them before they could alert the Vampires. He
then sought the doorway to the basement. It was easy to sight, with its mark of
the claws there. He knew the Vampires had sensed his presence. He kicked at the
doorway and then proceeded down on the steps. He reached for the rails with his
left hand while his right held the broadsword. He took two steps into the dark
basement before the broadsword glowed in his hand.
"Aargh!" The Vampires below the stairs
screamed out at the light that shone by the broadsword, for the light burned at
their flesh. Helmut did not stop at that, but leapt down into the basement
flooring. Upon his landing, he swung the sword in a wide arc, and then turned
his body to the rear. He had missed the Vampires which had retreated to the
lower cavern where total darkness prevails.
It was then the appearance of the faithful orb which
floated down.
"I presumed its safe." The orb voiced out
in its mechanical sound. "Place is seventy feet wide and two hundred in
distance. The place is clustered with discarded furniture sets but there are
some leftover of the victims in their decayed forms. There is a hidden doorway
to the cavern at fifty feet to your left."
Helmut walked to it and noticed it was a wall but
one that was camouflaged over. He stepped into it as if it did not exist, and
found a descending path that he soon walked down with his broadsword lighting
up. The orb was at his back.
"Master, the place was man made with a
precision of a half sphere, and held some compartments which contained more
decayed victims, but there are twenty four coffins. Five moving Vampires in
differing positions, and poised to attack with weapons of similar nature of
yours."
Helmut ignored the orb and continues his walk, and
then the first Vampire came at him with the drawn four foot halberd. He turned
his body to swing the broadsword, to cut the weapon and then a back swing to
cut at the Vampire. His first opponent down but the second had come flying
towards him from above, with a drawn sword. Helmut deflected the attack and
countered with his broadsword. He thrust the Vampire in the side before he
removed the Vampire of its head.
“Master….” Helmut heard the call from his Orb, but
he was too late. The Vampire had smashed his Orb against the wall.
"Come and fight me." Helmut stood on the
flooring of the cavern, and faced the remaining three of the Vampires. They
were armed with halberds and flashed their fangs. They came at him together,
and Helmut stepped back before he cut at the halberds. Then he countered the attack
and killed the one on the left. He then kicked at the right and punched the
left. He followed through with the broadsword on the other two Vampires. He
soon ended the Vampire threat with the razing of the manor to its basement.
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