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Chapter 28: Escape "Right, here's a map of the place." Fiona opened her chest flap (Her father's face turned red and her mother's expression twisted into one of enormous distaste when they saw this), reached in and pulled out a folded piece of paper. "This suit doesn't have pockets." she shrugged, catching her father's look. A quick look at the map told us that we were really far away from the exit. "Great. We'll have to go through a damn barracks." I groaned. "This is a completely different facility from the Fidelo Needle by the way." Fiona explained as we ran through the corridors. "I think the guard you knocked out tripped the alarm." she added, running a finger over a vibrating part of her stomach. Suddenly she opened her mouth and reached for her father's hand. He slapped her cheek. "Good thing your friends told me about it." he muttered as Fiona rubbed a red slap mark. The corridor still appeared to be empty even after the alarm sounded. "Strange, there should be guards running around by now." Fiona remarked as we took a right turn into a wider corridor. "We're in the main...... Whoa!" she hit the ground, pulling us down. Her parents looked in front and ducked not a moment too soon. A dozen laser bursts flew through the air where our heads previously were. A second later, I found my arms being pinned to my back. "Gotcha." someone grinned and I felt a hand on my chest. "Oh, bad move." I muttered, grabbed the guard by the throat and flipped him over my head into the floor. Something crunched. "That's gotta hurt." Alexis got up, having done the exact same thing to her guard. She brushed a bit of dust off herself and turned around to deal with the ones pinning Fiona and her parents. However, her mother appeared to have learnt martial arts. Her guard was lying on the ground in a daze and she was in a fighting pose. Fiona didn't need saving, she had turned around and bitten her guard on the arm. He flopped to the ground feebly. "Only used the anesthetic bite on him, don't worry." she grinned. The guard pinning Fiona's father was shivering violently as the 4 of us turned to face him. "SPARE ME!!!" he screamed and ran off. "Coward! Come back and fight!" Fiona's mother shook her fist at the running guard. Alexis laughed so much she got a stitch in her side. Fiona was attempting to hide her laugh, and failing at it. "Anesthetic bite?" I looked at her. "Yeah....HAHA! I can use the vampiric bite and the anesthetic bite when I'm in control, but when my instincts trigger, it's just the vampiric bite. HAHA!" she had a fit of the giggles. "Jakito, is there any way to cure a vampire bite?" I asked as we hurried along the corridor. "Yes, there is. To cure a vampire bite, you must kill the vampire that bit the victim in the first place. If you want to cure Fiona, you're running out of time." Jakito scratched his head. "Why?" I had to ask. "There's a full moon tonight, in 3 hours. Vampires reach the height of their powers during the full moon and most half-vampires fully transform during that time. Fiona's a half-vampire right now, she hasn't been through a full moon since she was bitten so far. If you kill this William within 3 hours, you can save her. Fail, and she turns into a full vampire like him and then we can't do anything more about it." he added. "Problem is, vampires can only be killed by either a wooden stake through the heart, a cross or extremely powerful magic, none of which we have." Jakito sighed. "I think we have an answer to that." I looked in a nearby room. It was packed with field equipment. "Tent pegs, anyone?" I grinned and quickly located a few, stowing them inside my jacket. "Smart." Jakito laughed. "Soo...... where's William?" "How do I know?" Jakito grunted. I turned to catch up with the others, but they were gone. "Wha..?" I blinked and took a few steps forward, just stopping on the edge of a pit. "Whoa!" I backpedaled and fell to the ground. "I'll get us out." I heard Alexis's voice and a fluttering of wings. A few seconds later, she was hovering in the air in front of me, using her wings. Fiona was clinging to her leg. She floated to the other side of the pit effortlessly and went down again. "Nice idea of a trap." Fiona brushed herself down and looked down the pit. I quickly flew down to help and carried Fiona's father up while Alexis took her mother. "Hugo didn't count on a few people having wings." I smiled. "But you didn't count on me being here." a strangely familiar voice said from behind me. I whirled around. "William." I breathed. |
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