Jaune Mercer

Chapter 27: Festival of Blood!

Jenos was outside Beluga's room. After that nightmare, he had to make sure he was okay. Still, he wondered if Jaune would come to finish the job.

Suddenly, the alarms started blaring. Soon, a voice came on the intercom.

"Alert! Intruders have entered the hospital! They are killing the staff and patients on the first floor!"

"Initiate lockdown protocols!"

"Repeat! Initiate- ACK!"

Soon, the tapping of the microphone could be heard. In seconds, a new voice came on the intercom.

"Testing. Testing. One. Two. Three."

One of the nurses went to the computer. She tried initiating the lockdown protocols, trying to secure all the entrances from the elevators to the stairwells.

"Hey Arcs."

She hit one last button. Suddenly, all the doors to the stairwell were locked. In time, a hard-light dust shield formed behind the doors. All the floors were secured, and the intruders would have trouble entering the room. The only way to override the lockdown protocols was with a special keycard that a few of the staff had.

"You must be feeling pretty down after that embarrassing beatdown Jaune gave you."

Soon, security guards on the other floors took out their guns, ready to put holes in the intruders. While some staff were scared, others went to the patients, trying to calm them down and bring them to safety.

"Today, we're here to put you out of your misery."

Jenos took a fire extinguisher near Beluga's room and armed himself. Then, he went into the room, to protect Beluga.

"Oh. And for the rest of you non-Arcs."

*CRASH!*

One of the intruders broke into through a patient's window. Before the patient could react, the enemy beheaded him.

"You just have bad luck today."

Soon, more crashes could be heard as the sound of broken glass bounced on the floor.

Outside, one could see a score of the intruders climbing the sides of the building. Each one stopped at a different floor before breaking the windows to the hallway or patients' room. The sounds of screams and blades slicing through flesh and bone filled the atmosphere.

"I hope your lives were nice before this."

[On the First Floor]

The hatchet-wielding cowboy held the microphone. Near him were broken and slashed corpses. Soon, another of his cronies appears by him.

"Sir, they secured the doors. Our ground forces can't advance."

"I see."

"Should we join the others and climb?"

The cowboy looked up at the ceiling.

"That won't be necessary."

[Second Floor: Beluga's Room]

*CLANG!*

*CLANG!*

*CLANG!*

The sound of clashing metal could be heard as Jenos used a fire extinguisher to block the sword strikes from the enemy. While he didn't have his Excellion, he was far from helpless. At the moment, he was doing this to protect Beluga and himself.

"Ha! Killing two Arcs!" The attacker shouted in joy and bloodlust.

*CLANG!*

*CLANG!*