"What the hell?!" Shouted the twenty year old women standing amidst the ruins of a small coffee shop, surrounded by two men and one other women.
The younger of the two men shrugged with his handgun hanging limply in his hand, and smiled. "Oops?'
About one hour before, the coffee shop was bustling with people grabbing their morning dose of caffeine to slog through their day, and Aiva Tannen was having breakfast, until the ghoul tried to devour her face.
The whole thing started when she sat down with her usual double shot expresso and her usual plate of French toast with bacon at her usual table, at her usual restaurant, with her usual resignation with the fact that she isn't a bestselling author. The cafe was bustling with its usual horde of caffeine addicted patrons, except for one person.
This person sat at the counter, nursing a cup of triple shot expresso with five heaped sugars and no milk while glancing nervously around the room.
Aiva also sat nursing her coffee, toying with her food boredly and checking her watch for no apparent reason, that was before the attempted face eating, but not long before.
The attempted began face eating was when she accidentally scraped her leg on a loose nail on the underside of the table, drew blood, and released a loud string of profanity.
This also caused a gasp to escape the person that wasn't a regular patrons mouth, and for the whites of his eyes to turn black with the irises red.
Suddenly, he burst from the stool he was sitting at and whipped around to stare at Aiva as a second row of razor sharp teeth shot down, claws burst from his fingertips and a snarl rose from his chest and into the coffee scented air.
A scream of terror ripped through the small crowd after massive blades of bone emerged from the tops of his wrists, when a gunshot rang out as three people barged into the shop, armed with guns and knives."Crello, get the Younglings out! Me and Juli will take care of the ghoul!" Shouted a deep American voice, and a sweet French one responded. "Got it boss!"
Finally a female voice reported, "then get to it Crello! We can't let this thing have a buffet!"
A dark skinned women with a sub-machine gun sprinted out of the crowd and fired at the man turned monster, and not a single bullet hit. Within a second he was farther to the left than he was before.
The young man Aiva assumed to be Crello had pushed open the coffee shop doors and was herding the panicking crowd through it while the American was trying to corner the ghoul with the women thought to be Juli.
When Crello's gaze fell on Aiva, she hid under the table she was sitting at. She did want to watch this go down, after all.
The brownish blonde haired Frenchmen didn't notice Aiva and pulled a handgun out from under his jacket, and joined the fight.
"Leave me alone!! We had a deal!!" Shouted the man with the red and black eyes when the back of his clothes exploded in black and red flames that formed the shape of pigeon wings."You tossed that deal out the window when you Frenzied in public!! Luckily that means we can deal with this quickly!" Shouted the American, firing his rifle and causing the monster to backpedal.
Their efforts to corner him eventually payed off and the monster was cowering in a corner.
All of a sudden, the man with claws burst from the ground and tackled the Frenchman."Get off me!!" Crello shouted as the monster sank its teeth his shoulder, and it's eyes widened.
"You're him! The rogue ghoul!" It shouted, and Crello shot it in the leg to detach him.
Crello succeeded in removing the monster from his body while the American and the dark skinned women restrained him.
"Adriane, sedate him!" Shouted the dark skinned women, whom Aiva assumed to be Juli.The American stabbed a syringe into the monsters neck, and it went limp in his arms.
"Well that took longer then expected." Groaned Crello, cradling his bite marked shoulder.It was then that Aiva finally got out from under the table and shouted, "What the hell!?"
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Elder sins
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