The Unholy Trinity

7

Milan shoved her phone back into its place in her boot before grabbing for the hand gun beside it. She shot Harrison a quick warning glare before strutting past him, towards the grand set of stairs across the room.

"Oh, no! I don't think so, Milan!" Harrison shouted from behind before running after. He was hot on her heels in seconds, way too quick for her to lose. A part of her didn't care, though. A part of her didn't want him to lose her. A part wanted him to follow. And help.

"It's a job, Harrison," she explained as she walked up the steps two at a time, "could get ugly. No. It will get ugly."

He shrugged carelessly like it was the most nonchalant conversation ever.

She scoffed, risking him a side-glance as they walked shoulder to shoulder. It was the oddest predicament. The last person she'd ever thought she'd see again. Here he was. Walking with her as she held a gun in her two hands in a sense of hiding. At the kings palace! Yeah, the oddest predicament.

Her steps quickened once she saw a group of the same creatures circling Neil. He hand his arm stretched out, it was shaking, his fingers tightly wrapped around the hilt of a knife. Obviously ill-prepared with a god-damned hunting knife!

An arrow shot across the room and it's point shot into one of the skinless' head. It groaned in agony for only a moment before turning its neck and connecting a blank stare at Aurora. She wavered with a step back, her lips parted in shock as he robotically took gapped steps towards her. The arrow bobbing as he walked.

"Aurora, shoot another arrow. Now!" Milan ordered, trying to hide the worry that threateningly throbbed her chest.

In total there was three skinless. The one trekking at Aurora in search of vengeance and the two glaring observantly at Neil. Groggily sounds emitting from their mouths that sounded like a group of zombies. They were naked but without skin it didn't look like they were bare naked. They just looked like wild animals. It was odd seeing them walk on two instead of four legs, but it made them seem more human.

"I-I—Mil, I don't think it'll do anything!" She screamed but nonetheless pinned her arrow to the string and let it fly. It struck in the skinless' eyeball. Momentarily, he halted his step. The space upstairs fell silent besides the ethereal panting of Aurora and Neil. Harrison's body was stiff, shoulders tight and mouth sewn shut. Milan silently wondered if he'd ever seen a supernatural creature so close before. Definitely not one of these newer ones.

When the skinless brought his arm up to dislodge the arrow from his eyeball Milan pointed the silencer at his head and pulled the trigger. No one was up here, the party was downstairs leaving no reason for anyone to be up here. Fortunately.

The two skinless the stood in front of Neil stilled just as the bullet his the oozy bloody body. It's body went rigid before crumbling into a million pieces of rumble in air. Dust pooled at the floor it stood. Bullets must kill the skinless.

"Oh my fu-"

Not letting Harrison finish that dirty curse, she swiped the gun to her left and directed her aim at the other skinless. But before she was able to let dust crumble, they both disappeared. Leaving only a trace of black smoke in their mist.

Neil smacked his free palm against his chest, heaving heavy pants. "Oh, god! Oh! Fuck! You two weren't kidding, those things were out of this world scary looking."

Aurora nodded in agreement. Her breath copying the rate of Neil's.

"What was that?" Harrison asked, angling his brows together with his eyes staring off at the floor where the skinless disappeared from.