Blood Moon

Chapter 9:Mind Control

Georgina fired a crossbow towards Victoria's lover, but she moved faster and moved into its path and caught the bolt, she snapped the bolt in half in her hand, being careful not to break the capsule. Another protector fired almost instantly and luckily Victoria missed it. The bolt flew across at speed and hit her lover in the shoulder, he was younger and less experienced with his powers. The capsule took a few seconds to take effect but when it did he fell like a stone to the ground.

Victoria caught sight of him falling to the ground and she sprinted over to one of three wooden poles which supported the tent. Her arms wrapped around the thick tree-sized pole, and she began to pull it towards her, the wood starting to splinter as her strength forced the pole from its metal housings. The pole fractured at the base and near the top of the thick pole which was around 30 feet in length. Carrying the heavy pole Victoria rushed over to the group of protectors and Georgina at such speed it took them a little by surprise. Victoria was in the centre of the heavy pole holding the pole horizontally, using her enhanced strength she pushed against the group of 14 including Georgina, despite their combined group strength they were still weaker than Victoria.

Victoria was pushing them back, their feet desperately trying to gain footing and stop them from being crushed against the wooden seating area where the still mind-controlled audience was. Victoria was screaming with anger as she pushed them closer and closer to the wooden seating area.

There was a loud wolf whistle and into the tent walked Catherine. Victoria turned to look. Catherine was holding the 7000 lbs canon which Georgina had ripped off its wooden gun carriage earlier, and Sergeant Thomas was behind her.

"Now" Catherine yelled

Catherine had changed the fuse to a short fuse, a wise decision. The canon ball launched out of the cannon hitting Victoria, causing her to stumble slightly and lose her grip on the wooden pole. Georgina seized the moment and swung her hardest punch she could hitting Victoria and knocking her off her feet. One of the protectors ran over with a capsule of  Vervain and smashed on the ground where she had fallen.

Catherine dropped the canon and ran over towards the male vampire who was still incapacitated. She called for a protector to throw her the silver sword so she could remove the vampire's head, sword was thrown over...

"Noooo" yelled Victoria trying to get up but the Vervain had effected her more than she thought.

Catherine's muscular arm swung the silver sword down with incredible force, the silver blade sliced through the vampire's neck and powered through cutting his head clean off, her powerful strike breaking the blade of the sword as her power continued to drive the blade into the ground. Victoria's emotion fuelled her anger and hate, she crouched down to power her leap across to Catherine, and her powerful legs pushed her upwards. Victoria's powerful legs pushed her into the air around 5 feet in the air when Georgina's muscular arm grabbed her ankle preventing her from travelling. She slammed Victoria hard into the ground. Another protector fired a capsule onto Victoria's body temporarily paralysing her.

"Well that went well!" said Catherine.

Georgina looked at Catherine in amazement!

Victoria was temporarily paralysed but her mind still controlled the villagers. Two separate groups started to move from their seats. Some of the villagers moved towards where Georgina, Catherine and the remaining protectors were standing, and the rest started to move towards the exit of the big tent. The group coming towards where Victoria was lying started to arm themselves with whatever was available, walking sticks to wooden seats. The other group heading to the exit of the tent just kept walking.

"I'll follow the villagers and see if I can stop them," said Catherine,

"She's trying to split us up" yelled Georgina in between dodging thrown items from the approaching villagers.

Catherine and a protector followed the villagers out of the tent. Inside the once-friendly villagers were now mindless violent folk, intent on causing harm and getting closer to Georgina & the remaining protectors.

"Oh gosh it's Earl" Georgina said out loud.

Earl was a farm hand, 6ft 6" and nearly as wide! He had managed to rip a 4ft wooden railing from the seating area and started swinging it wildly. Georgina ducked and missed his swings, Earl raised it again for a strike, he brought down the wooden rail with great force but Georgina grabbed the wood on his downward swing, her one arm easily grabbing the rail, stopping it dead and overpowering his two as he attempted to bring the wooden rail downwards. Georgina raised her leg and kicked him in the stomach, the power from her kick sent him flying into some of the other villagers knocking a few of them over at the same time. Georgina snapped the rail in half and threw the wood away. She & the other protectors continued their defence against the mindless villagers. It was harder than a normal fistfight as they didn't want to permanently hurt any of the villagers.

Catherine couldn't understand where her hurd was heading but decided enough was enough. She rushed over to the wrought iron fencing and started to pull up the main supports including the lumps of concrete until she had about 40ft of fencing. Then using her strength separated the fencing from the connecting posts by breaking the fixings. Lifting the 40ft fencing by herself she with the help of the protector managed to shepherd the villagers into one area. Catherine's muscles made easy work of bending the stiff fencing around them. They won't get out of that!