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Dirty Pair in Helloween
“Damn it, Kei, get out of my room! Can’t you see I’m busy?” Yuri
shouted. Kei had been bothering her for sometime now. Now, Kei
looked upset yet understanding, she put the fake vampire teeth
away.
“So playful, so bothersome,” Yuri thought. She was lying down in a
wet street on the planet Ramstein. She lamented all that brought
her there. Kei was no where to be seen.
She got up and walked down the street with a limp. Her arms and
right leg were bandaged from many wounds. She managed to
survive every battle up until now. She wished she could say the
same for all those she was working along side. She hoped Kei was
alright.
She remembered what the Chief said, “Be careful Angels, this is
not a mission to be taken lightly,” he was right.
--
“Fine, fine,” Kei said and left the room. She headed for the door.
“Where’re you going?” Yuri asked. She was somewhat concerned
for her friend.
“Getting some beer and social points down at Mikako’s, want
anything?” she asked while putting on her shoes and coat.
“No, I have to finish this report. Don’t come home too late or drunk!”
“Yeah, Yeah, see you later, Yuri,” Kei smiled and left.
Hours went by and sleep brought its weight down upon Yuri as she
typed. The next morning she awoke to find her report looking
awfully redundant. The screen was covered with the single letter ‘g’
from sleeping on the keyboard. She fixed it up and saved the file.
“Stupid computer,” she yawned and got up from her chair. The
video phone on the wall in their kitchen started ringing. It was
probably the chief. “Yeah, hold on, Kei you up!?” she shouted. No
reply came from it. She walked over to her room to find the drunk
sleeping all sprawled on her bed and tangled in her sheets.
Yuri growled and grabbed her foot. In a moment Kei was on the
floor along with her sheets. Yuri left for the video phone.
--
“Vampires? What the heck are you on, Chief?” Kei laughed from
within the Chief’s office. The chief just shook his head.
“Really, and on Halloween of all days!” Yuri rubbed her face in
frustration and sighed.
“I’m sorry, but this mission stands as the greatest we were ever
hired to do, sadly most of the people who have paid us have
already succumbed to the vampires. We have a whole planet
paying us now. We need you two, as our best agents,”
“Best paid agents,” Kei added. Yuri smiled and nodded in
agreement.
“Look, if you come back alive, you will have a vacation like no other,
your choice in place and length. Well, no longer than a month not
counting travel there,”
“We’re sold already,” Kei tried to stifle a giggle. She just wanted to
try out Nexus for once. It was a vacation planet like no other. The
place all the rich wedding couples go for their honeymoons.
“Here’s the data. Just come back alive, ok?” he pleaded with a sigh.
“We always do,” Kei took it, smiled and walked off. Yuri soon
followed behind her looking equally confident.
Chief Gooley just shook his head, he knew what they were in forr
this time, and it wasn’t going to be pretty.
--
Upon arriving on the planet Ramstein, they walked down to the
awaiting United Galactica volunteer group. 50 men and women
already to escort them to where they believe the man responsible
for this is located at. The group was larger than this and they had
far more munitions than before. The vampires come in swarms.
They took their toll on the group.
Kei stretched her arms above her head an yawned. She aimed to
get the men’s attention. It wasn’t all that hard either. Yuri took
notice and groaned in her unique way. She headed for the general
whom seemed no worse for wear. He was not looking all that happy
either.
“Hello, This is Kei, I’m Yuri, we are from the.”
“3WA Trouble Consultants, yes, we know. It’s hard to miss such an
observation by the looks of you two. To think a couple of femmes
would prance around in such ridiculous outfits,” the general ranted.
He was quite peeved in general.
“Hey, we are free to wear whatever we see fit!” Kei bit back and
clenched her fist.
“Says a lot about your character, eh?” he bit back.
“You think we’re just a couple of rookie ditzes looking to have some
fun?” Kei growled.
“I have seen the carnage and I don’t wish for the two of you to be
involved,” the general said plainly.
Yuri took notice of his true intentions, “Kei, drop it!”
“Ah, c’mon, I want to punch him one in the nose!” Kei smacked her
fist into her other hand.
“Another time, night draws closer. We need to get the lay down of
the area, the situation, maybe some weapons,”
“I know, I know,”
“Come with me,” the general requested and walked passed his
troops to a bus awaiting them. They took it to their encampment a
few miles away.
“Ok, let me get this straight,” Yuri started, “You don’t know who is
responsible for this. You have a vague idea where he is located
based on the movements of 300 vampires.”
“It’ll be 500 by tonight,” the general added without much thought.
“Great, limited fuel, limited weapons, limited man power and short
of blowing the roof off of every building and flooding the sewers to
lure them all out into the daylight. We have to wade our way
through the swarms to figure out where we need to go to take out
the man behind this?”
“It sucks, I know, but it’s all we have to work with. A reinforcement
ship should get here in a couple days. Top secret rumor has it that
it’ll have the cure on board.”
“So soon? I knew they were making one, but.” Yuri put a hand to
her chin. Kei was looking out of the window.
“Well, this situation threatens the safety of the entire planet. The
UG leaders fear that the man behind this will use the slaved
vampires for making an army or even a space armada rivaling his
own. Can you imagine the strength of vampire warriors in armored
suits and high powered guns only they could wield let alone
conquest planets etc? We were allowed to kill the victims if they
attack us, but that didn’t slow them down much.”
“Kill them even if a cure was on the way?” Kei took notice. She had
taken the words right out of Yuri’s mouth.
“I’m afraid so, worse thing is, we had to kill many of our own in the
process. As equipped as our forces have to be, having them as an
enslaved vampire is out of the question.”
“Wonderful,” Yuri muttered.
Kei scratched her head and decided to ask the most important
question, “What weapons do we use?”
“We have a sword made of silver. It’ll break easily so use it carefully.
Lots of silver bullets, shot guns, cannons, basic upgraded old
weapons,” he turned to a comrade whom whispered in his ear.
“No energy weapons?” Kei frowned.
“It’s powerful, but only burns them, they heal quickly. The silver has
proved useful. It looks like the doctor is enough of a horror otaku to
include the weaknesses as well into his disease. Darkness comes
in les than an hour, we march.”
“Can’t we take the bus?” Kei asked. She grabbed a couple shot
guns and strapped them to her back. She then strapped on the
sheath to her belt followed by a couple revolvers. She looked a
silver bullet over having never seen one before.
“It took us 2 horrid nights and a day or so to capture the space port
and the area we are in. We have very little fuel left so unless we
can find a refill station on the way there, we have to walk. Don’t
worry, the vampires can only jump high, they can’t fly or shape shift.
Also, remember, shoot to kill, we have the universe to save, the
planet if we’re lucky,” he explained.
“Ok, let’s go then,” Kei had fully armed up, carrying more than
generally allowed, but the troops didn’t bother to complain.
Yuri sheathed a sword and strapped a shot gun to her back
followed by some bullet rounds. “Yes, let’s hurry, I figure we head
for the closest, largest, darkest mansion.”
“Good idea,” the general commented.
The group of 52 started running down the street. Soon the two
angels were in the middle of the group as requested by the general.
They couldn’t argue. Night drew closer. It soon the night ate the day
leaving nothing behind. The creatures of the night stirred and
searched for food.
Kei looked over her shoulder at an alley they passed. She was
becoming paranoid. Yuri took the shot gun and checked to see if it
was loaded, she then closed it and cocked it.
“Here they come, troops, guests, fire at will, but stay close. Make
every shot count!” the general shouted. Ten vampires crawled out
of the wood work and lunged at the troops, shots were fired taking
them out. They crumpled into horrific corpses. More would come in
seconds.
Far above the battle stood a man with a big cloak, he smiled at the
new people to play with. Everything was according to plan. He
would give them this night, but the next would prove fatal.
A couple days have came and went. The reinforcements with the
cure were shot down by an unnamed perpetrator. Now the daylight
wasn’t safe. The troops have fallen in number and worse of all, Kei
had disappeared. Yuri fought to find where she last contacted her
from.
She was alone now, lost in the streets of this peaceful city on the
verge of annihilation. The vampire swarms have multiplied to 700 or
so just by a guess. There were a hundred or so dead by now
though Yuri prayed to who ever would listen that Kei was ok. She
could be hiding somewhere, she could be trapped somewhere. She
could be captured; she could be dead, or turned into a vampire.
Yuri shook the thoughts from her head, but it was no use. They
were separated and may never see each other again. Their bond
was weakening leaving Yuri depressed.
Kei was the strong one, she would avenge her, but now Kei was
gone or worse. She also prayed not to find her if she was a vampire.
She did not want to kill her. There was no cure, there was no
contact to the outside. She was losing hope fast. All she could do
now was to survive. She loaded another round into her shot gun
and shot down a couple more vampires charging her. She then
took her sword and sliced a couple in half. They fell to the ground
and shriveled.
The swarm saw no end. She didn’t care. She had one goal and it
stood before her. A giant fortress barred down so the inside would
be an eternal night. She had no firepower to blow it up, none
existed save for her ship, but it was too far away.
Her arm had been scraped and nearly bit many times. It was
bandaged up with cloth from some of the victims of this atrocity.
She fired a few more shots and loaded again.
She turned her communicator on again to get only static. She had
been doing this for the past day or so. She knew it wouldn’t be any
different, but she didn’t care.
She wiped her face only to have a large male vampire tackle her to
the ground, he thrust his fangs towards her only to get the side of
the shot gun barrel into his mouth. Yuri struggled to get out from
under him. She could see other vampires closing in. If she lingered
any longer, she wouldn’t survive the night. She cried out of
frustration and made a decision.
She would fight on in Kei and the troops’ memory. She would not
be a weak flower to cry in battle. If it meant killing every last one of
them then so be it. Was no different than the original plan, but she
would not look back anymore.
If Kei was dead, she was going to give her the best funeral she
could give her. If she was alive, she would punch her in the face. If
she was a vampire, she didn’t know what to think about that. She
kicked the vampire off of her and sliced him with her sword.
Another vampire latched onto her right leg and bit down hard. She
screamed in rage and lobbed off her head. She then shot down a
few more vampires and dragged her bleeding leg to an alley.
She cut the wound with the sword which sizzled unnaturally as it
touched the venom from the bite. She let it bleed for awhile and
then closed it up with some cloth from a crumpled victim nearby.
Hopefully her immune system could take out whatever was left.
She gave up worrying about that and tried to stand. A vampire
charged forward and lost his head to a gun blast. She loaded
another find that she was running low finally. She wished she had
Kei’s ammo, but then again that would be bad for Kei.
She could get her partner out of her mindset, she tried to run and
fell down on her face. She then pushed herself back onto her feet
with help of a wall nearby. She cursed under her breath at the idea
she would have to trek slower now. She only had a couple blocks
left. She had no idea how many vampires were over there, but they
were increasing in number and frequency. Day time would not
come for another few hours.
She thought about moving in the day time, but she had to find food
and sleep then. With all of the gashes and scrapes she has gotten
the past few days and nights, she needed the rest.
A block or so and an empty shot gun later, Yuri collapsed from
exhaustion. The sun peaked out over the horizon and allowed her
to rest. She was out of breath and nearly out of her mind having not
slept much in the last couple days or nights for that matter. Having
that reinforcement ship taken out didn’t give her much reason to
sleep during the day. It didn’t matter now, if she didn’t sleep she
would be dead just the same as being killed while sleeping.
The vampires hid back underground and within buildings from the
sun light. The dark fortress watched over all of them and awaited
the angel’s intrusion eagerly.
Cloaked in all black with a hood over his face to keep the sun from
touching his skin was the man again. He watched the young agent
sleep on the ground where she fell. It was his pleasure taking out
that cargo ship. He would not have his creation spoiled with a cure.
He would rather have them slaughtered like the past few nights.
The planet had a population in the billions. He figured he’d take the
planet over in a year.
“One more night, agent, I give you one more night. If you survive,
you may enter my fortress. I have much in store for you!” he
laughed and walked back into the building nearby.
--
Yuri awoke and shook herself fully awake. She had no time to be
drowsy. Sunset was approaching fast and she had no time to find
food. She used the shot gun to walk a bit better, but it wasn’t long
enough to work right. She looked in the windows of some of the
houses nearby to see some glowing eyes. They were waiting for
her, likely watching her the passed hour or so.
They were hungry.
“Damn it, Kei where are you?” she tried the communicator again
only to get static. She found some casings on one of the bodies. It
was one of the troops that went with Kei when they got split up. She
loaded the shot gun and strapped the belt around herself. She
needed all the help she could get.
Night struck down hard and thirty some vampires surrounded her.
She was close to the fortress now. This had to be the last stage
before it. The last major battle drew closer.
“Alright, let’s get this over with,” she fired off the shot gun down a
few at once. She then loaded and fired it again. A few more fell.
They were lining up. They had no fear of death and nothing to live
for save their master’s orders. Yuri cringed at the idea that they
may have been ordered to go easy on her.
Three large UG soldiers attacked as a team. The shot gun blasts
were blocked by their armor. She drew out the sword and shoved it
through one of their chests. It fell in a crumpled heap. She quickly
sliced and stabbed the other two while five or so vampires charged
from behind. She pulled the sword out with one hand and shot the
shot gun blast upside down off her shoulder on a no look shot. She
was near deafened by the blast, but it allowed her time to swing the
sword around to take out the last two. She then loaded and took out
a couple more.
This was becoming tiring, but at least she had a good sleep this
time. Five more crumpled in pieces at her feet. She dragged her leg
further down the street to have another attack her. She shot it in the
head and then sliced another one to her right.
The fortress was not far away, once she got there this would end
she could take the mad man out. Perhaps she could find Kei.
Maybe she made it in there and took him out already. There were
only theories as to how the vampires would act if the master was
dead. Maybe they would run wild, or use their last set of orders.
Maybe they would just collapse.
It didn’t matter, Yuri needed to be there, had to see this through for
whatever reason. She shot down a few more and loaded up
another shot. She was low on bullets again. She decided to save
some for the inside. She grabbed a large stick and used it to prop
herself up. She sliced a few more attacking vampires and pushed
forward step by step. It had been a few hours and the night had a
long way to go.
“Damn it Kei, if you are still alive hiding in a hole, I’m going to kill
you!” she muttered and drug on.
Some time later she opened the doors of the fortress and headed
inside.
“Kei!” Yuri screamed. Her voice carried and bounced off the walls.
Only the shuffling of feet could be heard. It sounded like the room
was full of vampires. She got her silver sword ready. The door shut
hard behind her. She was blind in the darkness, but she still had
skills to fall back on.
“Take her out!” a voice filled the room.
At once the vampires attacked. Yuri stabbed and slashed. Shot and
kicked. One by one the vampires fell and crumpled. The bodies
piled up around her. She fought her way deeper into the pitch black
fortress with no care of the odds against her.
She kicked aside a vampire which grabbed her leg and then
shoved the sword into the mouth of one grabbing her from the back.
She then shoved the crumpled body into an attacking one and
followed through with the sword.
She grew sore and tired. Every wound threatened to rip open. The
bandages grew wetter with blood. She fought on killing everyone
that attacked. She could do no more than a survival instinct.
They smelt blood, they were all blood thirsty beasts with incredible
strength and speed, thankfully they weren’t that smart. Yuri
slammed her foot into a vampire’s mouth breaking his jaw. She
then slammed the sword into another chest. The vampire swarm
saw no end.
Yuri almost fell over in pain. Her leg bandage had been ripped
away. Blood ran down her leg and onto the floor. The smell and
now the taste made the swarm hungrier and greedier. They fought
each other for the puddle, while even more fought for her leg. They
needed the blood to maintain their strength while Yuri grew weaker.
She took them out as before, but she grew sloppy.
The blood loss was getting to her head, she started to come to her
senses. Kei was gone, the volunteers were dead. No cure would
save the planet. Doctor Voldara could not be stopped. She would
become one of them, an immortally insane blood thirsty slave.
She fell onto her knee and fended off a vampire with the side of the
silver sword. It gnawed it until she threw her weight into it and broke
her jaw.
Her body was beaten and bruised, cut and bleeding. Her right leg
was failing her. Her eye sight faded from the blood loss.
“Enough!” the voice boomed again. Just as quick as when they
attacked, they stopped and backed away. “Agent Yuri, you have
killed over a hundred of my children with a heart of ice. To think
there was a cure made!” Doctor Voldara laughed.
Yuri held her bleeding leg. It wasn’t getting any better. She didn’t
have the strength to speak let alone fight anymore. She had killed
countless innocent slaves in the attempt to keep from becoming
one herself. Now, she had lost hope of rescuing Kei or even herself.
All she could think about was all of the wise tales of the after life.
So often she stared death in the face, but only now she took his
grin seriously.
“One more thing, Kei is dead,” he laughed again. Yuri couldn’t
respond. She didn’t care. It wasn’t for the lack of caring. It was
more for the lack of life left in herself. Death was expected and only
rapture remained.
“You look pitiful. Allow me to add another piece of news. In this
dark fortress, how do you know if you killed your own partner or
not?” he laughed again. He was truly enjoying himself.
Yuri opened her eyes wide. The thought had escaped her mind
amidst the futile battle. Any one of these horridly crumpled bodies
may be hers. She might of killed her. She looked around from
where she sat trying to see in the darkness. She could see nothing
clearly. “Why,” she choked out the words. She couldn’t stand the
thought of Kei becoming a shriveled corpse let alone by her own
hands.
“We all have our fetishes, addictions, and hobbies, little one. For
coming this far, I will help you find her body. Well, what’s left of it
anyways!”
A light appeared a couple yards away against a wall. There a cross
was erected. It moved mechanically so it laid on the ground. It
seemed the doctor felt Yuri would be unable to stand. The cross
was painted black and stained red with blood. Upon the cross was
a painful sight. Yuri, against her better judgment, dragged her
failing leg to it. After a time she reached it.
Kei was there strapped to the cross with thin metal wires up and
down her bare body. Blood had been drained onto the ground
below, more than likely to feed the swarm awaiting their next meal
behind her. Yuri pulled out a knife from her belt. The least she
could do was to get her down from there.
She cut the wires down one by one. They stuck to Kei’s skin and
left painful looking scars upon removing them. Sometimes they tore
the skin away. Yuri pulled her self up and cut the wires off Kei’s left
arm. She held onto it for a moment. It was light and cold. There
wasn’t a pulse either.
She finished cutting her down and removing the wires. She then
slumped to the ground with Kei in her arms. Her right leg stopped
working right and she could no longer stand.
“What a delightful sight,” the doctor mused. He appeared before
them. “I must say, you are two strong, fine young ladies. It would
delight me more than, hehe. Did I forget to mention, she was also
hungry?” a single drip from his hand from a self inflicted wound fell
upon Kei’s dried lip.
Her eyes opened and her mouth revealed large fangs. Yuri fell over
backwards in shock. She had no power or will to fight. This entire
time killing to preserve her own humanity now made useless before
her own partner.
“You will both become my brides!” the doctor laughed long and
hard as Kei threw herself onto Yuri with her fanged mouth wide
open.
Yuri threw her head back and let out a silent scream.
“You know how a vampire works?” he asked. “Arteries severed,
snake like fangs inject a poison turning you into them. DNA is
rewritten, wounds are healed and best part of all, you are my
slaves!”
Tears formed in her eyes and fell to ground from the pain. Or was it
pleasure? She was as good as dead now, just another fallen
volunteer wishing for death. Kei was starved on purpose, a mighty
slave to serve as back up to the swarm could of been speculated.
Now only time ticked by until time couldn’t be counted.
“I’m sorry, Kei,” Yuri choked, her voice weak. Blood dripped from
her mouth. With what strength remained, she took her left hand and
patted Kei’s head as she had her fill. Allready, Kei’s wounds and
scars were healing, but she would not yet be satisfied. Yuri grabbed
the sword and positioned it against Kei’s back.
“You would die together, wouldn’t you? Enough!” he pulled Kei off
of her and lifted Yuri off the ground. Yuri held her neck where she
was bit. Her vision was failing her, she would die of blood loss soon.
“Come now, my undead angel. You will feel no pain in a few
minutes. The poison will turn you soon. Your wounds will heal soon
after,” he grinned.
Yuri held the sword limply against his chest with her right. He
laughed at the idea.
“You plan on killing me in your weakened condition? Any second
now you will become my slave. Already, I can see you turn, go
ahead and try!” he brought her close as to tease her further. He
grabbed her face and pried her mouth open. “Where’s your fangs?”
he raised an eyebrow.
She shoved the sword as hard as she could into his heart. They fell
to the ground. He tried to pull it out only to have Yuri put her weight
into it. She removed her hand from her neck and dropped the fake
vampire teeth onto his crumpling body. “Arrogant bastard,” she
thought and feinted. The doors opened the next moment allowing
the UG reinforcements including paramedics to infiltrate. They had
orders to cure all that survived. They had been waiting for the battle
to end. The death of hundreds of their comrades the pass day and
night or so left them rightfully afraid.