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Chapter 30: Escape Suddenly, the Artemis-clone turned back into a man and the scientist stopped jumping around and started to scratch his head. "Huh? What's going on?" the Siren spoke. "Were you sleeping or something?" I thought. It nodded. "Even spirits need rest too, you know." it folded its arms. I looked straight at Artemis's limp body. "Gods above...... What happened to her?" the Siren was stunned. "Bitten by William." I answered, looking at the dust pile that was once William. Fiona was checking her map. "We'll have to go through this....... urgh..." she leaned on a wall, panting. "Are you ok?" I ran to her side. "Yeah...... I'm fine...... We'll have to go through this room to get out." she pointed at the room with the weirdo. I sneaked in behind him, followed by Fiona and her parents, with Artemis on her father's back. I accidentally stepped on a petri dish, which shattered. "Who's there?" the weirdo turned around and jumped when he saw us. The object he was holding dropped to the ground and bounced for a few seconds. I took my eyes off it, moved to his back and sent him sprawling over his table with a quick jab to the weak spot at the base of the skull. When I turned to nod at Fiona, I spotted the object sticking onto Artemis's leg. I ran to pull the object off and accidentally depressed something. It came off easily and I took a look at it. However, before I could check the label, Fiona threw herself onto me and we both fell to the ground as a cascade of bullets flew over our heads. "Be careful!" she warned. To my annoyance, the strange object had stuck itself on my stomach now. I decided to ignore it for now and just focus on taking out the guards shooting at us. I jumped forward and snapped one of the 4 guard's gun in half, dispatching him with a spinning kick that also battered another guard. Fiona tried to help, but without her vampiric powers, she wasn't much use, although she did manage to get a guard to put his face down in the floor with a neatly placed kick to the groin. I bashed the last guard on the neck while Fiona's mother went crazy on the guard on the floor. "Nice work, mama." Fiona stared at the severely pummeled guard. "Thanks. Let's get on. We need to get her to safety." her mother jerked her thumb at Artemis. We all nodded and continued on. I closed my hand around the object stuck on my stomach and pulled. I depressed something again. A strange feeling shot through my body, but I ignored it and pulled the object off, stuffing it into a pocket on my jacket. I would investigate it when we got back. Fiona consulted her map again and happily told us that we would only have to go through the barracks now. "The barracks. Get ready to fight." I nodded and continued walking. A few security devices had activated as we walked past, but I had cleared them. Sure enough, the barracks was filled with guards. I clenched my teeth and closed my eyes, holding up my palm. "Get back." I muttered. Fiona and her parents took a few steps back. The guards raised their guns, some their fists. "Avalanche!" I shouted and concentrated all my energy into my palm. A massive wave of ice and snow shot out of my palm, blowing away practically everything in the room, including the guards. I had to fight to keep stable, the spell was very powerful. The snow disappeared after a while, leaving a row of guards piled up against the walls. I fell to my knees, panting. Fiona pulled me up and we ran up the stairs and out the exit. "Whoa there!" a familiar voice yelled. Roy was standing in front of us. "Don't ask, we need to get Artemis to safety." I said hoarsely. He turned to look at the pale Artemis on Fiona's father's back. "I suppose the questions can wait, I got a van here. Pile in." Roy pointed towards a truck parked not far away from the exit. Fiona's father hoisted Artemis onto the back seats, then climbed into the seat beside Roy while Fiona helped me into the middle seats. There was a shout from the facility. "Hold on tight!" Roy shouted and floored the accelerator, burning rubber down the street. "How'd you know where we were anyway?" I asked. "Idiots left tire tracks. Tracing them was a piece of cake. I just got there when you blew the wall out." Roy replied and glanced in the side mirror. "Good, we don't have company." he heaved a sigh of relief and turned his eyes back on the road. "What happened to her anyway?" he asked. "I don't know. Seems like William sucked the blood out of her or something when she almost killed him." I answered, feeling like I was going to faint. "William!?" Roy jumped and almost crashed into a streetlight. Fiona was holding her head in her hands, swearing. "Sorry. He was in there?" Roy apologized. "Yeah, Artemis gave him a big injury before she went down though. Fiona here finished the job." I patted Fiona on the back. She smiled. Mei Ling, Lacus and Lopez were waiting for us anxiously back at the house. They got even more anxious when I carried Artemis out. "What the...... Is she okay?" Lacus asked nervously. I laid Artemis down on a sofa and Lacus quickly placed her hand on Artemis's chest. "I hope so." I replied, watching a green light bathe Lacus's hand. The Heal spell had no effect. "Maybe Purge?" I tried my luck. A golden light bathed my hand, but nothing happened to her either. I quickly did some explaining of what happened to us. Fiona paced up and down the room nervously. "Hold on, I'll check the library." Mei Ling scuttled off to the library and came back a few minutes later, looking rather pale. "Your theory was correct. Vampires can suck the blood out of their victims, effectively killing them. Artemis was lucky, real lucky she got out alive. She's running very low on blood though. We need a blood transfusion. No healing spell can do anything for an injury like this." she cast a glance at the bite mark on Artemis's chest. |
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