"No! How did you find us?" Camila asks.
"Oh please, as if you thought this dump could hide you forever," Claire says. She gives the signal to the vampires behind her. "Get them! Now!" She says.
The vampires rush at them, weapons drawn and fangs out.
Camila realizes then that she recognizes some of them.
El Patron's guards... The archive clerk from the basement of Malik Corporation.
"Traitors!" Lauren says.
"There's no time for that! We need to protect our people!" Zayn says.
Shawn unsheathes his sword and rushes at the advancing vampires.
Lauren flicks her wrists and her daggers appear in her hands with a twirl.
"This is it," Lauren says.
"Oh man, I do not want to die in a mall," Dinah says.
She grabs something out of her bag... An Order of Dawn repeating crossbow.
"Good thing I always come prepared," Dinah smiles.
She starts firing, blasting crossbow bolts into the oncoming horde.
A tall, lanky vampire drops first then a short sprinting one, both crumbling into ash mid-stride.
"Two down!" Dinah laughs.
But it isn't quite enough as Claire's army is way larger than Camila's.
Even as the loyal vampires scramble and hide, the attacking force rushes across the mall towards them.
Zayn leaps into their ranks, driving his fist through a skull and hurling another vampire over a railing. "Camila! Be safe," Zayn says.
"I will," Camila nods.
To Camila's left, she sees a trio of Claire's vampires speeding their way toward the escaping vampires.
"Help me! Help me, please!" A loyal female vampire says.
"Come here, cutie... I just want to play," One of Claire's male vampires says.
"I have to help them," Camila says. She grabs a UV grenade from Shawn's box. "Hold it right there!" Camila raises her voice.
She rips off the safety pin with her teeth as she moves her arm back.
"Incoming!" Camila yells.
She launches the grenade at Claire's vampires as it explodes with a burst of intense light.
The vampires flinch away, screaming, their skin burning as they flail then burst into ash.
"Yes!" Camila smiles.
Another wave of vampires comes right after the first one, the loyal vampires about to be overwhelmed.
"Oh no..." Camila whispers.
When Jacob rushes in, planting himself between the fleeing loyal vampires and Claire's vampires.
"Not one more step," Jacob says.
"Yeah? Or else what, old man?" A vampire asks.
"See for yourself," Jacob says.
He lifts a massive World War Two flamethrower, aiming it right at them.
"Holy-"
Jacob fires, swallowing the vampires in massive plumes of fire as they scream.
"Goddamn right," Jacob says.
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Secret Bloodline
FanfictionThe vampire world sure is one hell of a secret to discover