Cavaliere del Giardino Overture

Chapter 10

The butterfly fluttered up and down, it's wings beating the summer air. It alighted upon a flower and folded it's wings neatly upward. It was as beautiful as painted silk and as delicate as rice paper. He hid inside the flower as Three mask-wearing vampires stepped out of the burning town square. April's hitman squad, The SuperSonics.

Angelos slowly grabbed his sword unsheathing it and holding it in both hands. "You two, get people out of here," He said softly as Pilo nodded and flew off. "You two, Sammy!" He said as Sammy shook her head gripping her blade in her hand.

The Supersonics were in a mask, and suit and tie, This wooden mask covers the scalp, upper cheeks, and eyebrows and has exaggeratedly large eyebrows. Its design suggests a calm expression. It's done in dark gray, vivid red, blue, and silver. Sammy charged towards the first of the supersonics, swinging the blade as it nicked his chest, cutting the tie. Angelos rushed down the second of the hitmen, Swinging his sword only for it to be caught by the other. "You are a fake," It spoke in a raspy voice. Their eyes could be seen, radiating a bright green, a faint glow behind them. As the third swung the blade, cutting into the mask faintly.

"I've killed you each once, I will do it again," Angelos kicked the third one back as a bullet pierced through the thirds chest. Pilo smiled. "Is there anyone still here!?"

"They've been evacuated already, It's a ghost town, they were the ones who screamed!" Pilo said as The third one raised up, fluttering towards the bee. He charged towards him, swinging a claw, rather than a blade, Pilo grabbed his sword swinging towards the vampire, as it cut through his fingers, black thick blood spilled onto the sword. "They're dead....like the fungus but worst," He fired two bullets into the others masks, hearing it crack and start to break.

Sammy swung her sword, deep, slashes hitting the other's neck, shoulder, and side of the head. But the vampire kept moving. "What the hell are these things!?" She asked before stabbing the blade forward, feeling it plunge deep into the vampire's chest, black blood spilled down the sword as he swung his clawed hand at her. A shattering noise rang out as a gray claw ripped through the shell grabbing the other claw. "Defiant?" She mumbled before hearing the roar from her shell.

"What the fuck is tha-" The claw scratched down Angelos's mask as he jumped back. His wings opened only for a noise to shake through them.

The roar came from defiant as it grabbed the masked vampire, slamming it to the ground as the second clawed arm broke through the shell. The two clawed hands stabbed into the vampire as Sammy frowned. "I will lend you my strength this once, Sammy, I have seen what these things are," the black blood poured on the ground, the head slowly broke through the shell letting out another roar before throwing the vampire to the ground. "Returning life to the dead is something I hoped would've ended by this time," The first strike was with a poisoned claw to slow the reaction time of the victim, after that it was playtime. The "meal" would be allowed the chance to run, to feel the pounding of their own heart just a few more times and then the monster sank his teeth into their neck - just deep enough to let them bleed out slow. The vampire, however, didn't bleed out, he still fought, still swung and missed and quivered and bled. The force of the jaws of the demon got too much for the vampire's neck however and with a loud snap, his head came off.

Defiant roared louder as the demon healed the shell, Sammy fell to her knees coughing up gray blood.

Angelos stared. "Sever the head," he mumbled as the claw came down, cutting one of his arms, a pool of red blood spilled down his arm as he took a step back, stabbing his blade into the vampire's neck. The blood spilled down the blade as he pulled the sword out swinging once more, it threw its hand out catching the sword and slowly pulling its mask off. Burns across his face, his green eyes focused on him.

"I will end thee," He had a pained raspy voice as snapped the sword breaking it in two. The tip of the blade landed in a tree as he quickly grabbed his other nail and stabbed it into his chest, then another nail into his stomach.

"Pilo!" He shouted as Pilo kicked his off the room, hearing it get impaled on a fence below him. "Shoot him!"

Pilo aimed his finger, charging for a moment before firing a larger than usual bullet, hearing it split through the mask and colliding with the zombie's eye, then the skull, then seeing it fly through the back of his head and hearing it hit a tree. He giggled then laughed, a loud hysterical laugh before falling to his knees. "May.....will....come...." He mumbled out as black blood slowly poured from him. Angelos took a step forward and swung, cleaving the zombies head off. The impaled one bled out slowly.

"Well, we got their attention, right?" Pilo asked.

"That is a bad thing," Angelos said as Sammy frowned. "We must get back to the bar," He said before starting to flutter off. Pilo picked up Sammy and followed.