A Hundred Years (Michaeng)

Chapter 16

Chapter 16

The Battle of Riverside Drive

Jeongyeon was poring through the reports of fires that had seemed to start simultaneously around the city. Two of the names meant nothing to her, but she recognized the third. Mina Myoui. Does that mean that he's made his move. We need to be ready.

She sat at the table in her hotel room, papers strewn haphazardly across it. She heard the bedroom door open and Dahyun exited, still wiping the remains of sleep from her eyes. "Good morning, Jeongyeon. What's for breakfast?"

Jeongyeon handed her a sausage biscuit, "Here you go, I have some work to do so I want you to stay here, okay? Maybe you can watch some TV."

Dahyun sat down and started eating, she seemed saddened, "Okay, be careful Jeongyeon."

Jeongyeon left the hotel and took a cab down to the knights headquarters, there she met with her contact who stood behind the counter. "I think there may be a war tonight, we need to be ready."

The man nodded in her direction, "We are."

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The wolves charged first, screaming their fury into the night as Jihyo swung her mighty hammer and struck down three. The hammer cleaved through flesh and bone and the silver made sure it didn't come back. Taehyung's silver .45s barked and two more wolves wouldn't see the daylight. After that, chaos erupted as the wolves charged in force and the vampires were split.

Jimin drew his silver blade and cut through several wolves who stood in his way, but for every one he cut two more replaced it. He looked up and ducked just in time for Jihyo to fly over him and smash her hammer into several more wolves, sending them flying. "Leave some for us, Jihyo."

"Keep up, Jimin." Her grunted reply was punctuated by the sound of metal crushing flesh and bone. He looked around for Taehyung and found him and Mina back to back fighting off wolves from every direction. She ducked under an attack and Taehyung shot the wolf down. Two wolves jumped after Jimin and he cut them down in one arc.

Mina stabbed one wolf through the heart, drew out the blade of her naginata and slashed at another, cutting him across the throat and severing his head. Taehyung's guns stopped, "Cover me, Mina, I'm reloading."

Taehyung ducked behind her as she cut down two more wolves. "These guys are a diversion, we have to get to Chaeyoung fast."

Taehyung finished reloading and fired a couple of shots and took out another pack of wolves. "Let us handle these ones, you go find her."

Mina made a break for the front door, but was stopped by a large white wolf that used to be Park Jinyoung. She stabbed at him but he moved quickly, dodging around the side and grabbing Mina's head. He picked her up and knocked the naginata aside, then he slammed her head to the ground hard. He picked her up to do it again, but was hit in the head by a large hammer. "Pick on someone your own size, ugly."

Mina stood up as several more wolves came to back up their leader. Jimin and Taehyung rounded on them and proceeded to slaughter them while Jihyo and Jinyoung faced off. He made the first move, jabbing at Jihyo, who dodged and swung the hammer hard, smashing it into the ground and sending pieces of asphalt flying up. Jinyoung took an opportunity to hit Mina, but it did no real damage as she pushed the hammer forward and tripped up Jinyoung.

Jinyoung lost his balance for a split second, but that was the opening Jihyo needed. She quickly pulled the hammer back and hit Jinyoung full force in the chest, sending him flying into the wall of the building. He got up and snarled bleeding from the deep wound in his chest. He charged Jihyo again, but wasn't as fast or agile as before, this time she sent him upwards, through a window in building and right into the room where Chaeyoung lay bound.

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While the vampires were killing the wolves downstairs, Chaeyoung woke up tied naked to a bed, the only light in the room coming from the window and a lit fireplace nearby. She struggled at the bonds but couldn't break them. "Have you finally awoken, my dear?" The voice came from behind a set of curtains, they were pulled back to reveal what once was Jackson, but now looked like a hollow shell of him. "I've been waiting for this for a thousand years."

"Mina beat you to it."

His face flashed anger before he reigned it in, "That bitch is dead, she lost and now I will claim what is rightfully mine." He stood from the chair and approached the bed, sitting beside her and running a hand along her side. She shivered from the coldness of the touch, as if all warmth had been stolen from the body the Prince now inhabited.

He lay on top of her, his lips neared hers when something crashed through the window and landed with a thud at the foot of the bed. The Black Prince grit his teeth as the human Park Jinyoung stood up. "We couldn't hold them, my Prince, they are too strong."

The Prince's lips curled into a snarl. He hopped off the bed and grabbed Jinyoung by the throat, lifting him off the ground. "One job, I give you idiots one fucking job and you screw it up. Fine, I guess daddy's gotta handle this one."

He tossed Jinyoung into a corner of the room and approached the shattered window, looking down he could see the bodies of almost a hundred wolves, the few who still stood were running from the battlefield in instinctual fear of the vampires. He recognized Mina, who looked up at him. "Let her go, Prince, or I will kill you to get her back."

He laughed, a deep throated, demonic laugh. "Do you think you have won, vampire whore?" His voice rang out over the street and to the four vampires who turned their full attention to him. "Do you think these wolves are the only power I can muster?"

He started chanting, what at first sounded like noise started to flesh out into words and phrases in a language that none present spoke save for Taehyung, whose eyes bugged at what he was doing. "No, stop, you can't call that into being." It was too late, energy filled the Prince, starting from his eyes it wrapped around his head and traveled downwards until it filled him. With a bellow he released it like a lightning bolt into the ground. " Zombies I summon you. The Army of the Dead"

Shockwaves rent the Earth, starting from the point that the energy had touched. The ground shook and split, vaguely human hands reached out and groped for purchase on the asphalt. They pulled themselves up, what had once been humans but were now worn through the decay of time and the elements. They walked hunched over, their skin like that of a bat, no hair covered them at all. Their eyes were dead flesh in their sockets and all four vampires retreated down the street away from the building.

Jihyo struck first, her hammer crushing one undead into jelly. Two more groped at her but she shoved them back, smashing one's legs off in the process. It crawled after her, determined on it's revenge. "How do we stop this? They won't stay down."

Mina and Jimin both tried but to no avail, even with severed heads they continued foward with a mindless purpose. Taehyung had already put away his guns as the undead surrounded them and pushed them further from their goal. "We need a miracle."

The sound of approaching helicopters filled the sky and several rockets sailed past them and struck the first wave of undead, sending pieces flying everywhere. Ropes came down and men in black suits and sunglasses slid down, each with an M16 rifle. From behind them troop transports came to a stop and more soldiers filed out, the large red crosses on their jackets signifying their allegiance to the Knights In Darkness

They set upon the undead, their consecrated bullets making short work of them. A black Chrysler pulled up to the vampires and Jeongyeon exited, holding her own rifle. "Where is he?" Taehyung pointed to the shattered window on the office building and Jeongyeon turned to her men. "The objective is to cut through this mess and get to that building." She held her rifle over her head, "The darkness is close, but we are the light!"