Dazzling Light | ATEEZ

Vampire

⚠️Blood and Gore, Character Death⚠️

Seonghwa stands off against 5 chiropterans. They were once human, but after their horrid transformation, their lumbering forms are at least 6 feet tall, with pig-like snouts, lipless mouths filled with sharp, jagged teeth, and large, glassy, red eyes glowing in the darkness of the derelict building's lobby. Their gangly limbs and skeletal upper body have bonelike protrusions. Knobby warts and boils filled with foul-smelling blood and puss litter their torso and their stomach are bloated, sallow skin with purplish veins covering their entire body. Their stringy hair is falling off their scalps and some have several bald patches.

Though their ability to think is limited, the creatures are strangely good at self-preservation and are known to go berserk if it means saving their skin. After witnessing the death of one of their own, the rest of the chiropteran backed away, recognizing him as a threat. Seonghwa allows himself a split second to look at the remains of his classmate.

Laid on the floor is the mutilated body of Sakura. Parts of her neck and shoulder have been ripped off, her limbs are snapped and bent in awkward angles, and internal organs spilling out of her abdominal cavity. Teeth and claws tore her clothes and body apart though she hasn't been completely dismembered yet. The bloody mess that became of his classmate is unsightly, and Seonghwa wishes she didn't suffer such a fate. But he can save the tributes for later, now he has to avenge her.

'The two guards aren't here. Where are they?' Seonghwa dreads the thought of a sneak attack or reinforcements (he definitely sensed more than 6 when they came here), but he has to deal with these things first.

Two chiropteran lunges at him at the same time and Seonghwa was about to dodge if a third one didn't come up his side. He reacts quickly - he kicks the one to his side, the force from his kick sending it flying across the lobby, bats away the faster of the two with the chair leg that Yeeun gave him, making it fly towards the reception desk and finally, swiping his claw against the third one's neck, ripping out their jugular veins and arteries. Blood squirts out like a fountain as the chiropteran's head snaps back, and it gurgles on its own blood as Seonghwa kicks it away.

He turns his attention to the other 2 that didn't attack him. Swinging his makeshift bat, Seonghwa hits one chiropteran's head. Its eyes are ejected from its sockets and blood sprays out of its snout as the wooden chair leg bashes through its skull. Despite being a blunt weapon, Seonghwa's vampiric strength enables it to cuts through the top of the chiropteran's head like a sword. The other chiropteran barely got the chance to react before it meets the same fate. Both of them fall in a heap at Seonghwa's feet.

'Two left.'

The one he kicked is up and about and is running towards him, so Seonghwa meets with a charge of his own, he ducks as soon as he's close enough, and plunges the pointier end of the chair leg into its bloated abdomen. Side-stepping to avoid a shower of guts, Seonghwa slices the chiropteran's stomach open, sending blood and its partially-fused organs flying through the air. The creature wails in agony as it drops to the floor, and out of mercy, Seonghwa stomps hard on its head, killing it instantly.

'Last one.'

The chiropteran he batted earlier shambles towards him. His strike knocked away part of its skull, leaving its brain partially exposed and its eye hanging off its face. Seonghwa doesn't waste time and charges it, but the chiropteran meets him halfway. The blonde thrusts his clawed hand into its sternum, caving its chest with the force of the impact. His claws sink into the thin, sallow skin, closes his fingers around the chiropteran's sternum, and yanks his arm back, tearing part of its ribcage. Then, he immediately stabs its exposed heart with his makeshift weapon.