Appetite for Destruction

Chapter 12

It felt like time just stopped. Everything was going too slowly. Gantlos growled behind his razor sharp fangs and red sclera. He walked in circles in Gardenia's public park and Ogron couldn't do anything but wait for a signal by him.
"Magic magic magic magic...I need magic!...hmm, who didn't I get yet...that nature fairy's a good target. She's too vulnerable...but her magic is strong...", he mumbles to himself.

Brandon and Stella look at the stalking figure before looking at eachother. Stella signals to Flora and Aisha who nod and get into place. "You ready, Brandon?", Stella asks him. Brandon nods, "Always read when you are." Stella smiles and tucks the steak away in her skirt pocket. She flies over to the ghoul. He darts his red gaze at her, an evil curl painted on his lips. "Come back for more?", he taunts.
"Oh, so much more. I'll bring you down once and for all!", Stella huffs. Gantlos chuckles again, but this time he was more tired than prideful. "You and your friends always say this, but you don't know how to defeat a vampire, so why bother? Just give up, sunshine, you're better off surrendering."
Stella giggles her turn, "Oh but now we do have a way, sweetie." She pulls the wooden stake out, Gantlos' eyes widen, veins just under his eyelids visible.

The stake! She'll take our powers away with that thing! You have to stop her, by any means. Maybe it's time to really rain blood...

He scowls at Stella, bearing his claws with a single hand move. "Give that to me!", he yells before charging at her. Stella flies up to dodge the blonde wizard and he quickly backtracks, summoning a seismic wave to hit her. Stella quickly pulls out her shield then drops it. Brandon comes out and aims his gun at Gantlos. "Lights out sucker!" The gun echoes his shot, the silver bullet travelling faster than Stella can blink in surprise. Gantlos steps away and dodges, Brandon firing more attempts. He dodges them and gestures to Ogron over to take a hit. "GAHHHH-", Ogron internally screams as he hits the floor in pain. Brandon looks at the bullets left in the cartridge. "Shit, only one..." he mumbles. He looks back and Gantlos. No limps, uninjured, dammit! Brandon wishes he was as good with a gun as Timmy.

Gantlos's hand glows with purple magic as he goes over to Ogron, clutching his bullet wound as he summons flickering red embers. "There, now go get the sun fairy again!", Gantlos hisses. Ogron nods and swings up, he hastily moves his way to Stella and teleports behind her, floating in mid air like a ragdoll. Stella shrieks a bit before Aisha jumps in and tackles him down. Stella sighs in relief and thanks her. "No probs! You need to hurry up with taking the vamp down!", Aisha tells her. Ogron pushes her off of him before getting back up. "Grab a weapon to defend yourself with!" Gantlos tells his minion. Ogron looks at a beefy tree branch and goes to snap it off the tree. Flora's temples suddenly sting as she hears the hollow shrieking of the plant. It sounded like a distressed banshee and a broken flute harmonizing.

Aisha's holding up well against Ogron, chipping away at his stick but only little by little, and steps back and pants, the sword dragging her arm down. She grips the handle tightly and roars as she strikes the branch again. Gantlos is still dodging and firing at Stella as Brandon contemplates when to fire. Some kids dressed up as a zombie and a skeleton who passed by the loft earlier spot the fight. They stop chewing on the candy corn and chocolate as they watch Stella summon light out of thin air as she fights the crazy ghoul.
"Ooh what are they doing? Let's check it out Chelsea!", the zombie kid tells the skeleton. She nods and they go over to the entrance of the park.
"Oh no, children!!", Stella gasps. Flora notices them and decides to fly over. The two kids gasp as she flutters down in front of them.

"Woah how does your costume do that?", Chelsea asks.
"Oh, it's not a costume.", Flora giggles, "I'm actually a fairy. And you see, we're busy doing a vampire exorcism, but it's for those of age 18 or older."
"We can't at least watch?", the zombie asks
"Kyle, it's not different from an X-rated movie." Chelsea scoffs.
"Yes it is!"
"No it's not!"
"Well, it is, technically. And it's also very dangerous so you should get away before you get injured," Flora tells them.