Time of Crisis

Chapter 16

    The car was way more sensitive then I was used to. As I had to ease on the gas to avoid doing a burnout. I didn't have this problem with my Lamborghini as it was all wheel drive all the time. I knew I wasn't going to get gas mileage in this thing due to it having a ridiculous amount of horsepower. We were about to pull out of the garage now. I had to stick the nose of the car way out to see both ways. I had to mash the gas pedal all the wall down to get up onto the road since we were on an incline. I turned onto the beaten road and went past where the hummer was flipped over earlier. Hopefully my dad hadn't lied about this thing being armored or we might've just made a grave mistake not taking the hummer. I drove slow as I had to constantly navigate around rubble and stuff that was in the road. On either side of just lied either the rubble of buildings or abounded ones. There was no visible pattern to what type of buildings were destroyed and which were left standing. I had no clue which way we had to go either so I assumed we should go towards the center of the city. We drove for so many miles after that I lost track, the only thing that ever seemed to change was the military radio constantly updating each other on where we were. There was never a silence on the radio. Everytime I heard someone speak they always sounded anxious. Then out of nowhere static came through and the people talking stopped completely. I looked at the radio for a second then at Jennifer. The radio started flickering through numbers and letters rapidly like it was spazzing out. Then after a minute it shifted to three numbers and froze. The three numbers I knew well and of course they were 666. And suddenly there was a flash of a blinding red light out of the car and I slammed the brakes out of instinct. The light faded but a black smoke remained and two hands came out of the smoke. Whatever was in the smoke placed it's hands on the hood of the car. I was in complete shock hoping this wasn't some evil being. I saw in the rear view mirror that there was no one behind us and that Michael was just staring at whatever this thing was.
I was about to look back when I heard Jennifer who was looking at whatever it was, "What the hell?"  
     I downshifted into reverse just in case with my foot still on the brake, "What is it guys?"
    Jennifer answered me within a few seconds, "A girl." I looked down from the rear view mirror and there was a girl at the front of the car. She had her hands on the hood. She looked about my age and had somewhat long white. She was wearing a cold shoulder varsity sweatshirt. It basically didn't cover the shoulders and it didn't meet at one piece around her neck. Meaning two thin straps over her shoulders were holding it up. The colors of it rotated between black and very dark grey. She was wearing very black jeans with holes at the knees. And a black necklace I think. And she was breathing heavily. The radio came back to life shifting to the military station, "Sir, we have a confirmed entity by Alpha squad!" My heart sank as I didn't want to have a fight another experiment right now as they almost always travelled in packs. But this one seemed alone.
    I was about to drive off when Jennifer hand on my chest almost stiff arming me. "Wait Crosby. Look at her neck." I did and she had a four huge gash marks like she'd been attacked by something with claws. She then collapsed onto the ground hitting her head on the car (which must've hurt). I put the car into park but left it on in case this was an ambush.
    I felt I had to figure out why she came to us, "I'm going to go check it out. You two stay here." Jennifer gave me a look like I was insane. I undid my seatbelt and I opened the car door. I stepped out peaking over the door at first making sure I could see her and I could. I looked around to see if there was anyone else nearby, which of course there wasn't. There was just rubble and abounded buildings. I closed the car door behind me my hand on my sword ready to draw it if I needed to. I approached her slowly and she was barely breathing. I reached out to touch her to inspect the wound closer. She let me without any resistance. It was pretty deep. I wouldn't be able to heal this with normal means. I had to use a healing spell. I did use a healing spell but I didn't want to because I had a feeling she'd go psycho on me as soon as she realized who I was. The skin slowly reconnected from one of the wound to the other and she started breathing normally.
    She came to and saw me still on the ground looking up at me, "Than—." Then she stopped talking and went slightly wide eyed for a second like she realized something. "Y-You're t-the v-vampire s-slayer." I kind of laughed to myself (which was kind of rude at the time) having no clue why she called me that as I hadn't killed many vampires recently. She started to crawl backwards seemingly scared.
Then I stopped laughing realizing she wasn't joking and my smile faded, "What do you mean?" She has backed into the wall of a building that was like two feet away since I was sticking close to the buildings as we were in an ally way that was just bit enough for the car to fit through.
She looked at me up and down in fear to lose her life, "You're the one that mu-murdered the queen! You're Crosby!" Somehow she'd figured out my name but I'd never actually killed a queen in my lifetime. I wouldn't dare attack the vampire queen either as there are too many vampire minions that would try to avenge her.
So I tried to walk closer to her to ask what the hell she was on about but she screamed, "Stay back demon!" I wasn't a demon either but whatever. I just kneeled down a few feet away from her. I could make out she had very light blue eyes. I heard Jennifer roll down the window of the car. I put my hand behind me towards the direction of the car to tell her to be quiet.
Now I asked, "Who told you I murdered the queen?"
She looked at Jennifer then me, "The trusted three."
Okay. There was many groups of three people who knew me and could be enemies of mine so that didn't really help. So I pressed on getting closer, "Who are the trusted three?"
She looked at me like I was dumb but was still scared, shaking in fear, "The three Demi-Gods the queen trusted. Hunter, Toby, and Kevin."
    I knew all three of them of course and two of them I had betrayed recently. The other one had the name of my foster brother but it could've been anybody with the same name.
Then Jennifer got really mad all the sudden, "Those bastards! I knew they had escaped but I didn't think they'd do anything that drastic. And of all things they blamed you for it!"
The girl stopped shaking and looked confused, "He didn't do it princess?" I guess she recognized Jennifer for some reason.
I looked back at the car and Michael had gotten out from my side of the car and was leaning against it, "Was there anybody there who saw him do it besides the three you mentioned?"
She seemed to think for a moment then shake her head. Then she looked at me, "I'm sorry for accusing you falsely." I was kind of pissed off at what a waste of time this whole exchange was but now I had prime suspects for who had caused the mass destruction of the city. I got up about to walk back to my car. Then she spook again, "You're going to leave me here?!"
I shrugged, "We're trying to stop a threat and you're wasting our time right now. And I don't see why I should bring you anywhere. I don't have the time to spare." I was about halfway around the car about to open my door when I heard her let out almost a guttural growl.
I looked back at her, and her left eye where the pupil was, was now glowing red and the rest of her eye was black. She was clenching her fists tightly I think in anger, "Take me with you..." I could barely understand her through her clenched teeth which were razor sharp. I had seen nothing like this before. Most vampires would have both eyes glowing red. Not just one eye glowing red and being black around the edges. I looked down for a split second about to pull open the door handle. I heard her let out an angry groan and ignored her opening the door. Michael hopped in as soon as I opened the door. As I was waiting for him to get in she literally jumped from where she was up and over the car and pinned me to the wall. She was mere inches away from my face. Her pale skin was now obvious. And the eye was blinding due to how back it was glowing. As Michael and Jennifer got out of the car, four red scaled like tentacles came out of her back. One went over her right shoulder and stabbed itself into the wall. Another went over her left shoulder doing the same thing. And two went on either side of her legs and stabbed themselves into the wall effectively trapping me. She got a few inches away from my face "Is this enough to convince you bring me with you?" She was ridiculously scary. My heart was pounding for once and I lost my cool. I nodded like a wimp just wanting her to let me go. She smirked and the things retracted back into her. Jennifer and Michael just looked on in complete shock.
I tried to breathe normally but couldn't due to my heart rate pretty much having skyrocketed. "You're gonna have to sit in the back seat though." They all got back in the car. I sat hunched over my hands on my knees trying to catch my breath and understand what just happened. All I know was that she was totally nuts. After a minute or two I got back in the car and of course she was sitting behind me now and Michael was sitting behind Jennifer. And the radio was going insane as soon as I got back in the car. There was so much chatter going on that they were overlapping each other. But I made out one thing clearly, "Entity RI-13-Y was just spotted entering Alpha squads vehicle after commencing an attack."