Out of the rain.
Out of the rain. I just wanted to get out of the rain. I arrived at the homeless shelter just as they were about to close the doors. Funny, that a city as new as this would still have homeless people living in it. The woman running the facility opened the door to let me in, then took a moment to stare at me. Apparently I looked worse than I thought
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A group of ten to twelve beings standing in a circle, a burning barrel in the center of them, casting shadows in all directions. I stop for a moment to figure out what's happening.. and as one of the men steps to the side, I see perfectly what's in the center of the group. Two women.. looking no older than myself, being held down by five other men, partially dis-clothed. Humans, clearly humans.. It looks like we got here just before ... just before it was too late. One small trail of blood leads past them, bits of broken glass dotting the way. A smoking vehicle stands at the end of the alley, the front end smashed into the building to our right, doors thrown wide open.
One of the men cackles out. "We's gonna fuck deez lil lesbo sluts up right!" The others begin to cheer.
"..oh goddess. Angel ..." I whisper, not able to find the words, too shocked to fully react.
I'm overheard, however, and one of the men turns to look towards us, spotting me first. "Guys.. I think we gots ourselves anoth--" but then pauses as he spots Angel. ".. It's him." That gathers the rest of their attention, including two others who were previously hidden by the shadows. They step forward, and they aren't human. Vampires, to be precise.
"We're ready for you this time, Soul boy."
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I was instantly in vamp face. I was... shaking. I rose from crouch, eyeing some of the obviously-bruised members of the gang I dealt with the first time with seething hatred, and snarled at the nearest vampire. "I warned you once," clenching my fists over and over and snarling at the gang's human topman. "Touch them again and I will rip your arms out of your sockets and show you what it feels like to be violated."
[Dana]
Topman steps over the girl he was about to finish off, stepping out more into the light. The right side of his head is a mixture of blue and purple, still not fully recovered by his last encounter with Angel. The two vamps flanked him, while the assortment of human thugs begin shuffling around, three remaining back to 'guard' the two girls.
I'm still in shock. A flood of unwanted memories pouring back into mind. I try to shake them off, however, taking a step forward to stand at Angel's side, nothing but pure anger showing on my face. I hate them.. and I want them to know it.
The vampires only stand by a moment longer before rushing towards Angel, followed by the leader, and two of his goons. They've prepared for this, and it shows. I start forward, but have four thugs rush towards me.. which I momentarily welcome. I hear a jaw crack as I drive my fist into the first guy's face.
[Angel]
As soon as they come at me, I attacked. It was the first rule of fighting that I had learned - when outnumbered, attack. It divides and confuses the enemy so that they are spending less time focusing on hitting you than they are on defending themselves and not hitting one another.
I caught the first vampire, a tall black thug who couldn't have been made more than a year ago, around the waist and tackled him to the ground, rolling off of his body like an exercise mat and spinning around to my feet. I lashed out with the knife edge of my right like in a vicious spin kick that took one of the two thugs out of the fight in an instant. He smashed into a wall and lost more than a few of his teeth on the bricks, then folded up into unconciousness.
The second vampire was on me now, snarling as he jumped on me and knocked me to the ground. I fell under him, faster than he was expecting, and folded my legs up to my chest as I fell. When my back hit the ground, I grunted, and snapped out with my feet, catching the vampire in the chest and knocking him up, into the air, and through one of the boarded up walls of the next building. He was out of the fight for a minute.
[Dana]
Broken-jaw guy crumbles to the ground clutching his face.. by the looks of it, he may have swallowed a couple of teeth. I send a strong front kick into a second thug's chest, slamming him back into the wall, several ribs crunching under the impact. I push another down to the alley floor, while turning back towards the second goon, still propped up inside the little crater in the wall. I drill the side of his head with the back of my fist twice before being pulled away by the third guy.
I send a headbutt forward into his face, just above the bridge of his nose, sending him back down towards the ground, clutching his face as blood beings to pour out. I turn towards the last guy.. who has a gun drawn, pointing towards me at about twelve feet away.
..Oh hell.
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As I came up to my feet, the first vampire, the tall black one, was rising. I leapt forward and pulled the Topman down by the collar into my knee. Blood spattered everywhere and he went limp, but I wasn't done with him. I grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and hauled him up throwing him against the wall, which he hit with a sickening crunch. Spine. It couldn't have happened to a nicer fellow.
The last goon came at me with a wooden bat, which I caught easily and the punch I returned in kind knocked him out cold. The first vampire charged me, but I ducked his wild rush and snapped the bat into two peices as he stumbled past me, and then shoved him up against the wall and slammed half of the bat into his chest. He turned to dust as the last vampire reappeared at the window. I turned and threw the other half of the bat at him and didn't give him another look as he blew away.
There was a gun pointed at Dana. I moved without thinking, throwing myself through the air and yelling at him. He spun about in sudden shock, and bullets ripped through my chest and shoulder, dropping me to the ground a bit awkwardly, but at least he was turned away from Dana now.
[Dana]
Can I dodge a bullet?
That's the question that pours into my mind for that millisecond I stand, staring towards the man who points a gun at me. I tense up and begin to move just as I notice him tense and prepare to fire.. only to have Angel rush towards the guy with a yell, grabbing the attention of the thug, and the gun. Bullets rip into Angel's chest as I run and leap over a fallen goon, crashing into the gun wielder as he still concentrated on my vampiric ally. We collide into the ground, him trying to bring the gun up to aim at me, while I grip the wrist holding the weapon, twisting my hand quickly, fracturing his hand and causing him to drop the pistol.
I jump to my feet, sending a hard kick into the guy's face to guarantee he doesn't get back up, and turn back towards Angel, concerned.
[Angel]
I pulled myself up to my knees by way of the dumpster beside me, grumbling and touching the fresh wounds in my torso. "I really hate it when people shoot me," I groused, not amused by the sudden realization that people seemed to do that a lot.
[Dana]
I took heart for the moment that he was alright.. well, alright for a vamp that was just shot several times. I have something else to contend with at the moment.. the last three thugs, and the two girls they held in their possession. I glance towards the three, then back to Angel.. and with a nod, I rush towards the remaining goons. They backed away just a bit, but I wasn't about to let them escape.
A quick jump leads to a spinning kick into the throat of bad guy A. I land, continuing my momentum of spinning around, sending a sweeping kick to bad guy B.. his feet fail him, and he tumbles down to ground. He drops the knife he was preparing to wield, which I grab quickly, and flip the weapon towards the fleeing back of bad guy C, striking him in the small of his back. He'll feel that for awhile. Finishing off the second guy with a swift kick to the back of his head, I finally take a moment to check the two girls, laying just a couple feet from me.
They're clutching each other in their arms, each one trying not to cry, trying to be strong for the other. It's so.. touching. They appear unharmed physically.. but goddess knows what's happened before we arrived.
"It..it's okay. We're here to help. You're safe now."
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"Are they?" A soft, sisssing voice, like twisted shadow, whispered out of the darkness and wound itself around the little culdesac, sssing at Dana and Angel. "SSsssafe?" A deep throated feminine laugh, intermixed with sssing sounds, echoed through the darkness. "Bad heroesss... broke all my toyssss..."
[Dana]
I tense instantly, peering around, trying to figure out where the sound is coming from. I crouch ever so slightly, standing in a protective stance over the two girls. I won't let anything else happen to them. I'd die first.
"Who's there?! Show yourself!"
[Angel]
I lurched up to my feet as a slender form in a long, black, clinging dress that seemed to me made out of shadow and cobwebs emerged from the darkness. Her dark hair cascaded down the sides of an incredibly pale face and were gnarled and tangled with cobwebs and bits of little insects. There was something sickening about the way she moved, too, as if she was was not quite slithering. She glided around the edge of the alleyway, towards Dana, sssing as she went. "I am Sssshaddoww..."
[Dana]
"..the hell..." I mutter under my breath, ready to rip this thing's head off if it came too close to these two girls. I cast questioning glance towards Angel, before peering back at this creature.. It looked nothing like anything I've seen, nor anything any Slayer has encountered before.
[Angel]
I sniffed the air, stepping closer to Dana and the Shadow, pushing the pain in my chest and shoulder out of my mind. "She's human," I told Dana, quietly, eyeing the Shadow with a dark gaze. "...or, close enough."
"Close enough," she said, giving me a derisive look. "More than you, anyway."
[Dana]
I looked towards Angel for a moment longer, before finally looking towards the..'human' once more. "What.. What do you want?"
[Angel]
"I want my meal," She said, laughing quietly. "After my toyssss were done with them, I get to feed, you see." She slid around Dana's back and sisssed at Dana's neck, then snaped out with her teeth, which were sharp and inhumanly pointed, and nipped the air by Dana's neck. "I do hate having to catch my own mealssss."
[Dana]
I spin around instantly, my face only a few inches away from.. it's. "You lay a single hand on these girls and I swear.." I don't care what it is.. what it can do.. what it wants. I refuse to back away from it.
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