Dracula: Patient zero
Chapter: 14
Outnumbered
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«Magnus» This is the best fucking day of my life!!!!! He said while jumping all over the place.
«Magdalena» Sob*sob*sob. Who would have thought that I would get so emotional just because of this... Thank you my lord! She said while hugging Vladus.
«Aldherin» Thank you my lord.
«Josher» Thank you... Very much! I wasn't convinced about you but... I owe you many apologies my lord.
«Vladus» It's nothing... I did it as much for you as for me. Now vampires can choose how they want to live their lives without fear...
After a few minute of celebration, the group started hearing what sounded like wolf howls on the distance, followed by the shaking of the earth. It was as if a pride of elephants was making its way toward them at incredible speed. The group immediately got into battle formation around Vladus.
«Kiara» Lycans!!!! RARRRRRrrrrrrrrr! Her words made everyone's eyes turn black, some were glowing orange and veins were appearing all over their faces. They were preparing to fight their worst enemies.
Vladus felt weird, the closer they got, the more he felt like the beast who were approaching were distant relative of his. It was a bit like with vampires but a lot fainter, he could barely notice them even if he concentrated solely on sensing their presences.
Then a sudden realization came to him, there was thousands of them approaching... He and his acolytes had used all of their magic on the anti-sun spell and hadn't had much time to recuperate. Even worst, they were immune to sunlight now but all of them could feel that they weren't as powerful during the day as during the night.
They basically had to fight thousands of lycans, each equivalent to a thousand years old vampire, while being at their weakest. Then suddenly, a giant monstrosity came from above after having jumped from roof to roof. They were moving as fast as young vampires, they were also four meters high and overflowing with power.
The beast was aiming at Kiara but the young looking elder made a quick movement, avoiding the monster's claws and ripped his heart out from his back. Instantly a giant wave of them came from all directions. Some came from above other from left and right.
The elders rushed into action and meticulously started ripping lycan hearts out while moving like ghosts among them. As soon as they were killed, the giant monsters who looked like hairy humanoids with wolf heads rapidly reverted back to their naked human appearance.
Vladus, followed closely by Magdalena quickly jumped into the fray and started ripping heads and hearts left and right, sending them flying in all directions. The oldest vampires were barely able to protect themselves so protecting the weakest was impossible.
Vladus' children started dying one after the others... Velthur being a human died first, pushing Magnus into a rage rarely seen coming from him. But Magnus was way to young... Only 71 years old, he didn't stand chance against such a horde of lycans. After witnessing Magnus's head fly into the sky, Vladus felt a rage he had rarely felt in his life.
His face became so covered with black veins that he didn't look human anymore. His four fangs fully grown, and his eyes shining like never before, Vladus let out a mighty roar filled with hatred and resentment. The feeling expressed by it was clear, they had pissed off the wrong person.
«Vladus» Groooowwllll ROAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRR!!!!!!
Seeing his brightly shining red eyes, the lycans stopped in their tracks. The alpha vampire in front of them had made them feel unimaginable terror deep down into the deepest part of their souls by simply roaring. Many immediately bailed and ran away for their lives.
Then from the back came a blood-chilling roar that seemed to make the lycans regain their courage. The roar had come from a lycan standing in the back. He was half a meter taller than the others, had black fur instead of the usual gray one and had red glowing eyes.
Vladus immediately recognized the sight of an alpha, the leader of this group. Behind him, Aldherin one of the elder had got his head ripped off and was now a pile of ashes on the ground. The others were slowly loosing the advantage... They were simply being outnumbered.
But when he saw one of Magdalena's arms being ripped off, Vladus made his decision. He couldn't fight to his full potential while protecting them. They would all die in vain simply for wanting to stay by his side during this fight.
So Vladus did the only thing he could think off to protect them. He used a maker's command on all of them saying, “RUN AWAY NOW”.
«Magdalena» NO! I'm not leaving you behind even if this mean my death!
Vladus ran up to her, took a few mouthful of her blood which was spilling all over the place from her severed limb, instantly powering him up. Magdalena was the oldest in the group, her blood was like jet fuel making his inside burn with power. Then with his eyes shining brightly, Vladus made himself clear.
«Vladus» I can't fight properly while you're around! You're all hindrances!!! GET THE FUCK AWAY THIS IS AN ORDER!
Magdalena showed a complicated expression before disappearing with the others toward the forest. Many lycans went after them but Vladus had his hands way to full to do anything about it. Filled with fury, Vladus turned his sight back to the alpha leading the group.
Like an unstoppable steam train, Vladus ran straight toward the alpha male while ripping everything daring to get close enough for him to grab. At lightning speed, Vladus had made his way up to the alpha. He then took a hold of the leader's genitalia and ripped them off.
The alpha male howled in pain allowing Vladus to stuff the severed organ into his gaping mouth. The alpha male went into berserker mode and slashed in all directions, killing some of his own men and ripping off one of Vladus's arms in the process.
Vladus' next move what to rip the alpha's heart out of his chest, killing him on the spot. At first, the other lycans stopped and hesitated a bit after seeing their leader die so horribly, but it ended up having the opposite effect to what Vladus was hoping for.
The lycans suddenly went into a murderous frenzy, all competing for Vladus's head. Now that their leader was dead, the one who would succeed in killing Vladus was almost certain to become the next alpha. Vladus took a look at his severed arm and realized something annoying.
Under the sunlight his regenerative ability was slowed down quite a bit and he now needed to avoid injuries as much as possible. He had been careless, there was still over a thousands lycans left and he now had only one arm to deal with them.
A bloody rampage ensued and Vladus was sending body parts flying in all directions. The entire city was littered with mangled corpse. There were severed limbs on the surrounding building roofs and severed heads flying in all directions.
An hour later, Vladus had ended up retreating inside the city temple to avoid the sunrays. His body was covered in gashes and gaping holes. He had lost a lot of blood and could barely muster the strength to stand up on his feet.
The remaining lycans were still relentlessly charging at him forcing Vladus to make a desperate move. Gathering every bit of magic he had left, Vladus destroyed the temple pillars that were holding the massive marble roof over their heads.
In an apocalyptic rumble, the entire temple roof came crashing down on them, killing everyone on the spot. Witnessing this, the few remaining lycans who were standing outside gathered together.
«Beta Male» I can't hear any heartbeat... They all died.
«Beta Male 2» I heard his regenerative ability is no joke... But certainly nothing can survive thousands of tons of rubble falling on them...
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«Alpha Female» Clear the rubble! Bring me his corpse! I won't be satisfied until I make sure- One of the male interrupted her before she could finish her sentence.
«Beta Male» Hey!... Who the fuck do you think you are...? He threw a menacing glare at the 'alpha' female.
In a lycan pack, the alpha male is elected by being the strongest but the selective criteria for the females to become alphas were quite different. The females who became alphas were elected not by strength, but only for being the alpha male’s mating partner.
Now with the alpha male dead, the previous female alpha was no more than a normal beta, therefore no one was going to take any orders from her anymore. Sensing that her life was now in danger, the ex-alpha female laid down naked on the floor exposing her belly in a submissive position with her eyes glowing orange.
«Beta Male» GGrowwwlll... How many warriors did we loose in this stupid battle.... The demon leach is dead! We've done enough! Come on men we're leaving.
There were now only 18 of them... With so many cadavers rotting all over the place, this city would soon become a Petri dish for viruses and sickness to thrive in. Certain of their victory, the group having lost 99% of their numbers left the city now filled with even more corpses than before.
A few hours later, some rubble started to move and an arm emerged. After a few more minutes Vladus had extirpated himself from the ruins and was slowly dragging himself toward one of the human cadaver on the other side of the street.
There was lycans blood everywhere but their blood smelled toxic to him. The last thing he needed right now was to drink blood making him weaker, so even if the human cadaver's blood had started decaying and was now most likely ineffective, it was all Vladus had.
Vladus had lost his lower body, his left arm and the right one arm was broken in a few places making it difficult for him to move. He was now only a torso slowly using his fingers to drag him across the street leaving a trail of blood behind him.
He was almost there but as if faith itself was having a laugh at him, Vladus passed out only a few meters away from his target, dead.
[A few hundred meters away]
A rickety carriage pulled by a mule was making its way toward the city. The carriage was carrying a big muscular man, a small teenage girl and a lot of cabbages. The giant of a man had brown short hair, brown eyes and a dense beard giving him the look of a caveman.
The young girl had dark dirty blond hairs, green eyes, and was very petite for her age most likely due to malnutrition. It was strange knowing they were father and daughter since one visibly wasn't lacking food seeing just how big the man was. The girl was barefooted, wearing worn out clothes filled with patches.
«Giant man» Karianne! Move your ass! I want to be there before nightfall. Said the giant man riding the carriage to the little girl walking behind.
«Karianne» Yes! Sorry father... Pant* pant* The young girl had blisters and blood all over her feet but her father couldn't care less about that.
After a few more minutes, the giant man spotted something he wasn't expecting to see. There were thousands of birds circling high in the air, most of them crows and vultures. The giant man knew very well that you could only see this phenomenon on battlefields with thousands of corpse lying around after a fight.
«Giant man» What the fuck? Did an enemy country attack the city?
The duo made haste and reached the city 15 minutes later. What they saw chilled their blood in their veins. The scene of chaos before their eyes couldn't normally be seen even on history's worst battlefields. The corpses looked torn to pieces as if monsters had attacked the city.
There were bodies and body parts scattered all over the place. Wild coyotes were feasting on the corpses, birds of all kind were poking the cadavers eyes out and eating their entrails. The entire city smelled of death making the young girl puke some green-yellowish fluid called bile, which was all she had in her mostly empty stomach.
«Giant man» Karianne! You disgusting little bitch! Instead of puking all over the place, help me looting everything of value from these corpses before anyone else arrive. This is the chance of a lifetime to get rich! HahahAhAH!*
The two of them started pick pocketing those who had money bags, bracelets, rings... Everything of value... The duo slowly made their way from one corpse to the other when the giant man noticed something. There were bloody drag marks on the ground that lead them to the top half of a corpse.
«Giant man» WOaaa... That dude dragged himself all this way while he was missing his lower body and his left arm.... That guy was a fucking badass!!!
«Karianne» Urgggg Blehurrrr!!! The sight of Vladus entrails littering the floor was too much for the young girl to bear so she simply stayed a few meters away.
The giant man quickly went up to Vladus' corpse and started rummaging inside his pockets. Then suddenly! Acting on survival instinct alone, Vladus sank his teeth into the giant man's ankle hard enough to shatter the bone and ripping the foot off.
«Giant man» HAAAAAAAAaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Suddenly regaining his senses, Vladus grabbed the man with his only arm and slowly dragged the panicking giant toward him, as his eyes were gradually turning black and faintly glowing red.
«Karianne» Kyaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!
«Giant man» HAAaaa!!! Karianne!!! Help me!!!! Haaaaaaaa!!
Mustering all her courage the young girl grabbed a big stone and threw it at Vladus but didn't have any effect since it had missed the head. At this point Vladus had crawled over the giant man's body and sank his teeth into his neck.
Finally drinking some deliciously warm and energizing blood, Vladus was still confused but didn't care anymore. This blood is what he needed to survive but Vladus couldn't help but be disgusted by what he saw. The giant man's memories were angering him and the more he saw the more he wanted the man to die.
He could see how he repetitively raped the young girl every night, feeding his dogs better food than he was giving her... Calling her names, dehumanizing her in every way possible, even going as far as keeping her in a dark closet during the night and beating her with every reason he could think of.
He was taking a sadistic pleasure in degrading her in every way possible. He burned, cut, whipped and raped her... He forced her to crawl on all fours for days, he shared her with unknown men in exchange of money that he would later use to drink and beat her again once he was drunk.
Yet, this young girl was at this instant trying to protect him with all she got... Then as the man died, Vladus saw something even more infuriating. The giant man was dead, but Vladus was finally starting to heal. The young girl was yelling and crying her heart out which made Vladus want to tell her one thing.
«Vladus» This man.....Was an even... Worst monster.... Than me..... He.... Was not your real father...... With his body critically trying to concentrate all of his energy on healing, Vladus then passed out once again.
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Many thanks to gcman01 for proofreading this chapter!
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