~Chapter 4: Night’s Bliss~
“Damn, there’s too many of ‘em.” The man said, as he was overwhelmed with Nocturnes (The creatures that come out of the portals). Another came at him with force; its brains soon flew in the opposite direction, splattering in a mess of blood and cartilage.
The woman huddled in a far-most corner of the room, quietly sobbing and praying to whatever god she believed in. A Nocturne flew at her with surprising speed, Amelia jumped on it and drove it to the ground, her blades impaled it and then she slit its throat, just to be sure.
I watched this scene for a bit, forgetting almost about the danger that was around me. I snapped out of my daze quick enough to jump to the left to avoid an incoming attack. The Nocturne looked back at me, surprised at my speed. I raised my gun to its mouth and pulled the trigger.
It continued like this what seemed like hours, but it was probably only one. After somewhere around my 25th kill I looked back over to the woman, she was still in the corner in the same shape, still crying, still praying.
Another loud screech came from the doorway, followed by some wind. “Another one?” I asked, as I looked back and saw nothing, I kept looking for a few more seconds and I saw a flash, “What the hell’s happening now?” I said as I saw another flash.
Something came through the window, not even shattering the glass, just phasing through it, as if it weren’t even there. Arrows of light came strait at me. I rolled to the side and looked at the direction to which they came. Several more phased through the walls, “Damn,” I said as I kept dodging them, “What the hell’s going on?” I asked as more came at me.
“Hell if I know.” Amelia responded while dodging countless, and increasingly faster, blasts.
The woman that was hiding in the corner stood up. She walked over to the door and turned around, I noticed that her eyes had changed from a light green to a dark and dull grayish black. She looked at the man with the shotgun “Lex, take care of these two, they look like the ones that I mentioned earlier.” The man nodded and the woman walked out of the room, not even flinching at the incoming barrage of projectiles.
She walked towards one of the open vortex, nocturne spewing from it. One of them lunged at her. With lightning fast reflexes she backhanded it, sending it flying into a nearby tree, splitting it to the bottom of its trunk. Another tried to grab her from behind, she turned and did a roundhouse kick to its face, it soared back a few feet, with incredible speed she dashed up to it, jumped and pummeled it relentlessly with flurries of kicks.
An arrow from one of the unknown nocturnes seared her shoulder, she disregarded the pain and surveyed the vicinity that it came from, but found nothing. She kept searching and saw a blur, the blur was still but it was like some sort of cloaking device. She jumped at it and tried to connect. The blur moved out of the way and struck her head and sent her plummeting down to the ground. She hit the ground and left a small crater.
The blur moved in for the kill, she waited until it raised its bow and notched the arrow. It pulled back on the string. The woman did a back-hand-spring up to the nocturne and planted her foot on its throat. She pushed it towards the ground and tore the arrow away from it. She twirled the arrow in her hand and stabbed it into the nocturne, it started decaying instantly.
As if on cue, rays of light broke the darkness, peeking over the horizon. In unison the nocturne screamed out in pain as the light tore away at their flesh. They all dove into the vortexes before the light disintegrated them all.
The remaining nocturne lay in a lifeless heap, burning in the light.
I started to come out of the old house, the man, Lex, came rushing past me, knocking me down. He scooped up the woman and brought her inside, he laid her on an empty bed. I noticed Amelia cleaning her blades, not really caring about the girl at this moment.
“So, what…what the hell happened?” I asked, finding a strange loss of words.
Lex ignored me and kept looking at the woman.
She turned to the left and looked at me, “I guess I should explain.” She said as she looked at Lex, his features were unchanging, “I’m a Cion.”
(Kinda shorter...I think...well....yeah...)