Matt caught the ammo pouch and re-loaded his guns, putting the pouch with the remaining clips in his jacket pocket, and holstered the pistols. "If you hadnt've arrived when you did the entire SOLDIER unit would have been devastated." Matt told Miller. "But you are here, so there's that. Atleast you came when you did." Suddenly Matt heard a really loud explosion from the forest, sounded like grenades. Probably a few SOLDIER disposing of a few vampires, so he ignored it. Soon after that someone with a almost psychotic demeanor approched him lugging Lightning along. "Exactly who the hell are you and why are you carrying a unconcious woman around the streets?"Matt told him, then he saw the Blade. Johnathan always carried that thing with him..did he kill Johnathan? No..Impossible.. Matt drew one of his guns and put it to the man's temple "You have exactly two minutes to explain how and why you have that Blade."

Lighting shifted in and out of conciousness, she could feel herself being moved by what she didn't know. Other than that, she had no control currently over waking up or not. All she could do was wait and hope she would be human when she woke up again.

Magnus dug his claws deep into Johnathan's chest, severing a artery leading to his heart. Magnus grinned, then noticed the belt of grenades. Magnus had no time to think, he simply removed his claws from Johnathan and got the hell away from him as quickly as possible, but it wasn't enough. Magnus was caught in the shcokwave and part of the blast, thrown a few feet from the explosion Magnus lie still severely wounded. The blood cloud slowly reaching him. If he could survive long enough without SOLDIER finding him he would live once the vapor reached him. He could hear a group of SOLDIER off in the distance shouting, and gunfire along with vampires shrieking as they fell. "Damn..it..." He was able to moan. He crawled as best he could, using his claws for traction. A few inches from the blood cloud the SOLDIER were mere feet from him, the leader of the group spotted him first calling for the rest to join him.

Magnus pushed up off the ground and stood up holding his abdomen with one of his arms, walking, moreso limping, as quickly as possible towards the vapor. He felt a bullet tear through his shoulder, in his weakend state he was susceptible to pain, and he hurt like hell. He eventually reached the blood cloud, hopefully it would heak him quickly enough. He could feel the blood tingling on his open wounds, he inhaled through his mouth taking in even more of the blood. He began healing more quickly now, the SOLDIER quickly advancing and bullets whirring past. He turned to the SOLDIER and grinned, his eyes once again shining crimson and glowing in the dark of the night. As the last of his severe wounds healed, he rushed for them easily disposing of them in his enraged state. He looked around, seeing everything dead his rage began to subside.

He cricked his neck and walked over to the bloody patch that was once Johnathan, he noticed that gun of his on the ground. While the holy bullets won't effect humans, they could easily kill him. Plus aside from that he could just as well load it with normal shotgun shells. He detached it from the mangled limb that could hardly be considered a arm anymore and held it in his hand. While it had barely survived the explosion, he believed it could still be used. He test fired it however, and it simply fell apart. He cursed under his breath tossing the now scrap metal on the ground. He walked back over to the SOLDIER to search them for anything useful, he found a few grenades and a few flashbangs. Seeing as how Magnus prefers a tactical approach, he assumed these could be useful. He placed a few in one of the grenade belts and slipped it over his shoulder across his chest.

Shortly after he heard a rather large rather loud metallic thud off in the distance near Kilo Point. He walked to the edge of the forest, the holy vapor now gone to investigate. He saw a girl, no, not quite human, off in the distance. He heard no human heartbeat, only machinery. Though, the scent seemed familiar. Could it be?...The human whom he had been friends with many years ago? The only one who accepted him for what he was and understood him? Could it be, Lambda? No...she died many years ago, it couldn't possibly be her. He stepped out of the forest, sticking close to the shadows. He had to find out, he had to get closer..he had to know for sure..

Martin had no idea where he was anymore, there was a gun pointed at his head and questions where being fired at him.
Questions he couldn't find the answer to, he was losing grip again, as far as he .. *KABOOOOM!!* "Oh shit" Martin looked with wide eyes at the sizable explosion where he just remembered he left the two duelists.
Looked like he missed it after all, just as she'd predicted.
Martin closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then looked Matt in the eyes as he carefully dropped Lightning in front of him. He set the crimson blade in the ground behind him and loosed the straps around his shoulders so the backpack and the riot-shield attached to it dropped to the ground.
"can't show fear, never show fear" he thought as he took another deep breath while staring down the barrel.
"This artifact isn't mine, but it is in my care for safekeeping." Slowly he took his backpack and held it between himself and the gun, as if it would provide cover. He slowly reached in and pulled out a white bottle. He presented it to Matt.
"If you let me I will now see if its owner still draws breath, you have more pressing matters to attend to" Martin gestured at Matt's scratches and then to Lightning with the bottle.
the shaking of the bottle made a recognizable sound.
"Painkillers, take them."

It didn't take Lambda long until she picked up the signal of a vampire group nearby, immediately changed direction. Magnus lost sight of her as she got around the next corner upon arriving at Kilo Point.

As Magnus catched up he could see dead bodies from vampires Lambda just killed in less than one minute and there she was, floating in the middle of the street lifting up the only surviving vampire from the group. He tried to escape her grip but there was no use, Lambda's 'blade wings' circled around his neck until they finaly delivered the final strike, cutting off the vampires head "Target exterminated...".
Suddenly she catched a weird but slight signal, it was Magnus who was following her. While Lambda quickly turned around she shot two energy swords at him, they were fast and he didn't expected that she would find him so fast. Still Magnus was able to dodge the energy blades just in time.
"New Target acquired... Scanning... Scanning... Scan complete... Target unknown... Target threat level unknown... Target is Oldblood-class... increasing threat level to S... executing Protocol 774... Power limiter set to 90%..." Lambda said with her robotic voice as she prepared for her next battle which would be quite hard.

Roland held the girl tight comforting her as best he could, before his tone changed from pleasant to cold "What is your name?" her tear filled eyes met his cold gaze as she stammered" Mary" Roland's instincts told him to feed, but a small human part of him fought back "Mary, your family is dead. This whole town is filled with vampires, you will most likely die tonight..."He let that sink in before continuing "Name your last request and I will see it done" He felt it only right to grant her final request especially because he would be the one to end her life this night. Mary was quiet, so scared she was shaking her life was over, somehow she knew her savior would be her doom so what all the courage she could muster "I will ask two things of you Angel of Death, first make my death quick and as painless as you can and second..."Her voice started to crack but she steadied herself and shouted "Kill Them All! Do this for me Please!" Roland Looked her in the eyes "I will see it done Mary. Now close your eyes" Something about Rolands words comforted her and she closed her eyes with a slight smile on her lips. Rolans quickly snapped her neck, but he did something his instincts told him not too. Instead of feeding, he grabbed a nice white blanket and covered her body. Before he stepped out of the house back into the streets where battles raged he turned "Goodbye Mary, I will see them all destroyed" with that he headed towards the sounds of battle Mace in hand.

The streets ran red with the blood of Vampires and Soldiers alike. battles ranged on every corner, the loses where unreal. As Roland marched down the street heading for the loudest sounds of battle he came across a Soldier missing his arm with a vampire tearing at the dead mans throat. As Roland got closer the vampire sprung to its feet in a defensive stance blood dripping from its lips. It was about to attack until it recognized Roland from his time among the vampires "Is that you Ro?" It asked . Roland put on a big smile as he walked closer, He didnt know this vamp any better than he knew the others, but that wouldn't save this vamp from Rolands promise.

Martin shook the bottle of painkillers in front of Matt.
Impatiently he looked around as he saw some movement near the site of the explosion. "Did one of them make it?" He thought. He hoped.
"There's two vampires you might have seen wandering around these parts. One of them is looks like a crusader from the glory days of the catholic church, full plate helmet, crucifixes, the works." Martin paused.
"The other one has long flowing hair and psychopathic murder in its eyes" He looked Matt in the eye. "Can you tell me their names?"

Martin casually gestured with his free hand to the sword. "Time is of the essence."

Matt lowered his gun and grabbed the painkillers with his other hand tossed them to a field medic nearby and ordered her to help tend to Lightning's wounds. Soon after with the help of another SOLDIER they were carrying Lightning back inside the base to the Med-Bay. "Appreciate the meds, still doesn't explain exactly why you were carrying one of my SOLDIER's around in that condition. Nor does it fully explain why you have that blade for 'safe keeping'" Matt told him. "I know one of those vampires quite well, crazy son of a bitch at that. Name is Johnathan, about the oddest vampires you will ever find. As for the other, I have no clue." Matt decided it'd be best to ignore the huge explosion through the conversation, he had more pressing matters, especially if it was just SOLDIER cleaning up part of the vampire stragglers.

Magnus slowly stalked who he thought was Saya(Yea forget my other post about him referring to her as Lambda, you suggested this name so I'll go with it :p.). Magnus watched as she was floating in the air untill eventually she decapitated the remaining vampire in the vicinity with some type of weapon protuding from her back. She was clearly no longer fully human. She turned when she noticed him and fired some sort of weapon at him, he had no time to figure out what it was, he immediately side rolled out of the way. The weapon left small craters where he had once been standing. Someone had to be controlling her, she would never have attacked him had she full control over herself and her memories.

Magnus called out to her "Saya, is that you? Do you not remember me? It is me Magnus! If that is truly you and you have even a shread of humanity and your manners left you should know who I am!" He didn't wish to, but he readied himself for battle, if she lashed out at him again he would have no choice but to defend himself and possibly destroy her if it came to it..

"Was about the oddest vampire you ever found." Martin corrected Matt, "If that explosion is what I think it is, then I quickly need to go see if this Johnatan is still alive.. well you know what I mean. As for the sword it was abandoned, impaled on a tree in the forest. A shame cause this thing could sink into a stone easily." Martin presented the sharp edge of the blade playfully.

"As for the girl I stumbled upon her by luck. She was about to be mauled by a vamper so I sliced it. More by luck than skill I admit.
Well then got caught in the crossfire and decided that this place would be a sweet cover. And I couldn't just leave her there, could you?"

Miller bumped in the conversation between Matt and Martin "Matt it seems we've got almost all the remaining vampires. I'm gonna go now, making sure that there will be none left.". Then he went towards his men, while he did that he took out his radio "Hello, Miller speaking, we've arrived just in time to support SOLDIER at Kilo Point. It seems to me that something big is going on here, we might need some heavy equipement here. Miller out!". After Miller finished his call he turned to his men and they moved on, continuing to get rid of the remaining vampires at Kilo Point.

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Lambda was about to strike one more time, but Magnus' words made her hesitate. However just a few moments later she proceeded with her attack creating some kind of energy Portal infront of her. Out of this portal a lot of energy swords flew directly at Magnus. While Magnus would try to dodge the incoming swords, Lambda makes a huge and fast leap towards him. She winded up and swang her 'Sword Wings' forward in an arc, aiming for Magnus' Body.

Martin used the split second of distraction the Officer gave him and moved a step to the left placing Miller between him and Matt's gun.
"Ireallygottogothanksbye" Martin ran off, sword in one hand and shield on his shoulder. Bag hastily thrown on his back.



The smoke near the explosion site had cleared, some vampires were moving in the bushes near it. Got to catch a ride first, Martin thought.
He sprinted into the city, on his way he grabbed a SMG from the clutches of a Soldier's arm, the arm was about 20 ft. away from the body so Martin figured the guy didn't need the gun anymore.

The officer was right about having won the battle, but there were still hordes of vampires skulking around in the darker shadows, and while the main streets were fairly clear, the alleys were not.
From cover to cover Martin dashed towards the center of town, where his car should be. He saw a few SOLDIERs take down a group of vampires, this cleared a path so Martin ran, then they opened fire at him. Martin returned fire, he was a terrible shot, but with a Sub-Machine-Gun that didn't really matter. He didn't even care if he hit anything. It forced them into cover and that meant less bullets coming his way.

He got past but he felt soaked, he felt his back and got a hand full of blood. Didn't feel anything, might as well keep running till the adrenaline runs out.

He got to the town center, and there he saw it. An armored van, holy smoke pouring out the back. Martin walked around and opened the door. It was beautiful.

Magnus dodged out of the way of the energy blades but the weapons on who he thought was Saya's back managed to make a gash on his chest, while not a severe wound, she was fast enough to hit him. Magnus grabbed one of the blades before they retracted back to their original posistion and slung Saya into the pavement. "Saya stop this madness! I know if it truly is you we wouldn't be fighting like this, nor do I wish to have to harm you further.." He told her.

Martin turned the smoke dispenser off and closed the doors behind him. Time to bandage that wound. He couldn't find one, turned out a stray bullet had popped one of the blood bags in his backpack. Lucky me.
Martin had the van hot-wired in 13 seconds, almost beat his old record.
He turned the ignition on and started the car. It came to life with a low hum, then the music turned on.
Some religious aria blasted trough the streets. Martin quickly turned it off, everyone must have heard that. So much for stealth.
He drove the van around the block as fast as he could and jumped out, ran over to his own car and ferried over his stuff to the van with a hurry.

A large group of vampires was coming his way.



No sense in hiding now, Martin attached his laptop to the speakers installed on the van and turned the smoke generator back on.
He turned on some music, blasted it loud, waited for the countdown and rammed his foot on the gas paddle.

The engine roared, the tires screeched, martin laughed and the van sped forward.
300 yards, more power!
200 yards, headlights on, are those ultraviolet lights?
100 yards, the vampires are scattering in attempt to escape vehicular carnage.
IMPACT!
The van smashed trough a dozen vampires and came out pretty much unscathed.

Martin felt the rush and kept driving, while howling like a madman.

There was a SOLDIER blockade cleaning up about half a dozen of vamps. There were makeshift barriers set up. Martin rolled down a window and shot at the pillars keeping them up. One of the barriers fell over on top of a car. Martin bashed trough several vampires and maybe one or two SOLDIERs, he didn't know, he didn't care. He had bigger things on his mind, like hitting that ramp.

Martin flew for a good 30 to 50 before landing and driving on. A minute later he had returned to the blast site, where the vampires had come out to investigate. He plowed trough them then came to a halt with screeching tires.

Martin jumped out and shoveled Johnathans remains into the van.
"Please please please don't be my target" Martin mumbled with a painful look on his face.

He heard gunshots coming his direction so he got back in the car and drove into the shadows of the forest and turned of the music.

After a few meters Miller signalled his team to stop "You hear that? There is a fight going on on the other side... lets split up. You two go up this building, you follow me" he said before they entered the buildings.

Lambda made her combo fast and quick, but the System underestimated Magnus power and agillity. Instead of slicing through his stomach, Magnus almost dodged it leaving only a few scratches and slung her in pavement. 'Agh!'. It seemed like Magnus knew her or something, but Lambda couldn't remember anything from her past life before she became a cyborg.

As Miller and his teammembers arrived the roof of the buildings. "Now look at that. I think thats one of these experiments I've heard of. This vampire must be quite a challenge, lets help by giving some covering fire" Miller said before he and his team opened fire on Magnus.

That was the moment Lambda needed, she imediately got on her feet again and proceeded with a volley of strikes with her sword wings, her blades attached to her arms and several strikes with the blades attached to her legs. Even for Magnus it would be extremly difficult to dodge Lambdas attacks and the bullets feom the Fire team at the same time.

Magnus took the less deadly of the attacks he faced, he dodged the sword attacks with minor scratches whilst more than a few bullets managed to find their way into him. Luckily he had no heart,literally, or he wouldn't be doing so well right now. Surely eventually SOLDIER would have either good enough aim or get lucky enough to land a headshot. Then Magnus had a plan, Whilst Saya was busy with her sword attacks he could grab her and toss her into the group of SOLDIER. He grinned and grabbed her arm before turning with her and releasing his grip in the direction of the SOLDIER group sending her hurdling towards them. Magnus spotted the leader of the group, Miller. He had heard some radio chatter earlier as he was following Saya, so this was the man who single-handedly lead the back-up team that slaughtered his men. Magnus growled in fury, he ran up to him and extended his arm, claws digging into Miller's clothing. Magnus lifted him off the ground and spoke through his teeth, barely able to subside his rage "If you wish to live you will call off what remains of your unit, atleast for now, and leave me to sort out my personal issues alone. This is none of your, or any of the other damned SOLDIER's concern!"

Martin drove on until he found a narrow cliff with a view over the city.
From here he could just about see what he guessed whas the other vampire.
Martin got out of the car and grabbed his cellphone.

"please tell me its not Johnathan."

As Magnus finished his sentence Miller started to laugh a bit "You are wrong boy, you know what this is? This is war! I have my orders and those are to kill every damn vampire shit like you are." Miller bend towards Magnus a bit as he continued "In case you care first I slaughtered more than 30 thousand of you kind, piece-of-cake and I dont know what you plan with this experiment, but let me tell you one thing. Whoever she was before, there is Nothing left of her past self. If you knew her and want to get her back you better give up boy". Miller tried to get lambda and his men as much time as possible and distract Magnus, sure he was in a dangerous Situation and taunting Magnus is insane but there isnt quite another chance. On the top of a building a little further away, one of Millers snipers got in position. He had a perfect view on the battle. The sniper aimed carefully and shot off Magnus' arm with a 50.Cal bullet. As Miller fell down he imediately grabbed his pistol which he loaded with holy bullets before and shot the whole magazine at Magnus. Magnus might could simply kill Miller but Lambda interfered by jumping in between them and opened some of these portals who shot energy swords at Magnus.
Also 2 truck fully loaded with SOLDIER units arrived, these men also opened fire. It wouldn't take long until more would arrive with better equipement.

Rolands rampage continued down the street smashing any straggler vampires the SOLDIERS missed along the way. Not one would escape him this night, He made his way closer to the grand battle. A lone vampire stood in the shadows of a alley behind Matt and Light, preparing to attack when they where least expecting. It hoped to at least kill one of them, but both would help in distracting the leaders. Thats what it was preparing to do, suddenly a light tap on its shoulder prompted it to turn around and face Roland who was already in a baseball stance mid swing. The hit was shattering as the vampires ribs and lungs where introduced to its spine, The hit knocked it back near the feet of light where it grasped at the burning hole in its chest shrieking in pain.

Gabriel moved through the men, and each step echoed through the streets. Black heels, clapping against the the pavement. His eyes were bright red, looking out from under his slick black hair. Bullets whistled through the air, not one even touching his air. The SOLDIER unit that had spotted him seemed to instinctively know that this vampire was somehow different, not a one able to aim a gun straight. Gabriel smiled, one hand outstretched dramatically, the gesture silencing the guns from the enemy. They simply stared, captivated. "Hello world."
Flames covered the street, as SOLDIERs screamed. A car exploded, and Gabriel walked through the inferno. On each side he was surrounded by the screams of the dying, as a nearby vampire charged him. Gabriel caught the vampire's face, and he screamed as that same face melted from his skull. With each step, another man died, as those that had not yet fallen fled from the seemingly unstoppable force. The world was burning, and Gabriel walked through the streets of doom. Screams were the melody that played his arrival, the apocalypse his stage, death his act.
Up ahead, Magnus clashed with the SOLDIER forces, children fighting over the breadcrumbs at the edge of the table. Hungry and desparate, ignorant of the grand scheme of things. He walked onto the field of battle, a smile on his lips, as he whistled a toneless tune. His pointed teeth were bright red in appearance, permanently dyed with the blood of a million fools. His simple appearance was enough to shock most into silence, and even Lambda was halted by Jack's long-distance command. "Ladies and gentleman. I'm sure you've heard of me." Gabriel looked up at the two parties who had only recently paused their little struggle. "Children shouldn't be fighting amongst themselves, now should they? I suggest you all go home."

Martin stood at the cliff listening to his cellphone for a while.
..
"Good, then it's the other one. Hold on"
Martin attached a headset to his phone and grabbed a shovel and started digging.
"He's like, this huge guy. Long purplish hair, leather pants and spiked shoulder pad... Oh yeah, the real deal. He fight's with extreme speed and clawed Johnathan to shreds. Until Johnathan hit him in the face with a blaze of glory that is... explosive suicide."
*sigh*
"Didn't get to see that up close, shame"
"Oh shut up you know you'd have watched"
"huh? oh yeah, so he totally survives that, plus he's got this blood lust in his eyes. I think he's our guy."
"What do you mean doesn't fit the description? I didn't get a description!"
"Fuck clearance levels I have a right to know that kind of shit."
Explosions are heard in the distance.
"Yeah well I don't - hold on..."
Martin drops the shovel and digs around in the stuff he threw in the back of the van to find binoculars.
"Ma'am, I got sight on the target. I repeat I got sight of the fucking target."
...
"I'll finish up here and then I am going over there, I'll keep you up to date."
He lighted a cigarette, even though he'd said he'd stop for good this time.

20 minutes later Martin swept the sweat of his head and put the shovel down.
He pressed play on his laptop and took a few steps back.
Martin sat back and watched the fruits of his labor.



Amazing grace blasted over the town as a funeral salute to all that had fallen that day.
Martin smiled as he shot the last magazine of 21 bullets into the air and threw the gun of the cliff.