Vampire (Part 1)

Awaiting the moment the vampire, white as a ghost, stopped screaming, Lucian and Richard moved from behind the wall and rushed at it, swinging their axes at it with Richard going in first.

The vampire dodged them with it's swift movements, quickly delivering a counter strike and hitting Richard in the shoulder, stabbing it's long claws into it and twisting as he yelled, widening his eyes and swinging with all his mite in it's neck.

Isolde couldn't bear to watch it, so Perin held her firmly.

Lucian jumped from the side, kicking it away from Richard and holding his axe, gripping it firmly, rushing at it, avoiding it's stabbing strike just barely and aimed to strike it in the leg, feinting a blow in the neck.

It worked, causing the supernatural being's leg exposed, but it simply avoided the strike, kicking Lucian in the face, making him grunt and his nose bleed, gritting his teeth.

Going to regain his balance, he saw that it was preparing to shriek again. Acting quickly, he stood up and pushed Richard into the room where they found the swords, unable to make it there in time himself.

He was flung and sent sliding, losing his balance, for dozens of feet away. It looked like the shockwaves of it sent him flying and he had a feeling in his mind like the shriek was tearing the flesh off him.

Lunging at him swiftly, it kicked him so powerfully in the stomach as he was on the ground, that his body twisted mid air, causing his back to land against the wall as he spat out blood.

Aeliana's eyes widened as she saw this and instinctively moved into the corner, observing it silence.

The vampire lunged at him once more, closing the distance of dozens of feet swiftly, preparing to strike him in the head with it's claws.

Bang!

Impact was made undoubtedly. Lucian had moved his head in time to the side, causing the vampire to strike the wall.

Using this opportunity, the adrenaline pump was undeniable as was his drive to live and survive, he used his right hand and mustered up all the strength he could to jab the vampire in the face 3 times before it stabbed him with the claws of it's other hand in the stomach.

He yelled out loudly, taking the axe out of the neck of the vampire that Richard had left behind and lifted his leg, kicking it away from himself, tossing the axe above it.

Richard caught the axe with his right hand as his left one wasn't much of use due to the state it's in right now, the state where it cannot be lifted to shoulder level. Immediately as he caught it, he performed a circular motion with his body to build up momentum and struck the vampire right in the back.

It was about to shriek again.

Lucian ran past it the fastest he could up to Richard, whom grabbed him under the arm "I got you!" he said, attempting to flee.

Turning behind after a couple of feet, Lucian didn't see it, causing him to be nervous but the pumping adrenaline and will to live mitigated it the best they could.

In the middle of them, it dropped down. Richard let go of Lucian who continued on running as he went to strike the vampire with his punches yet it dodged every one of them, delivering one of it's own with it's claw at Richard's face with such force and sharpness that it sent him flying through the wall into the other room.

"Thank god I have this armor, if I didn't, the damage would be too great.. That's if I even survived!"

Lucian noticed it was right behind him, intending to stab him in the back, so he quickly ducked down and rolled backwards, changing directions and rushed there, hopping inside the wall into the room and noticing Richard wasn't moving.

Not having any time left, he noticed a sword in that corner by the wooden crate, but the vampire had already entered the room.

It was preparing to shriek again.

Lucian took a part of the debris from the ground and threw it precisely at the vampire, stopping it and causing to simply scream and rush at him performing a gnarly slash on the armor's oblique, cutting right through it and grazing his own skin.

He rolled towards the sword and picked it up, standing back up and beginning to slowly circle the beast as it did him.

Seconds of that action going by, his grip on the blade tightened as he lunged at it, performing a downward slash. The vampire dodged it by moving out of the way, going for a counter-strike. 

Barely reacting, Lucian blocked it and grabbed it's arm, pulling it closer. It tried to slash his face but he had already ducked under and delivered a slash to it's stomach, getting behind it and going to kick the axe further into it's back, however it cut his leg.

"Agh!" he grunted, regaining his balance back and going for it's head. It was quick to weave, after all it did have supernatural speed.

Becoming slower on his feet, feeling the sweat on his forehead, Lucian continued on fighting it with all he had, going for a diagonal strike all of a sudden, cutting it's stomach and quickly into a circular motion, aiming for it's head.

It ducked under it and slashed at his face, forcing him to lose balance and fall onto the ground only to avoid it. Acting quickly, he rolled back the second he noticed it even flinched and just like that he dodged a stab.

Getting up the fastest he can, Lucian lunged at it and swung his blade, merely grazing it's neck and jumped to the side to roll out of it's incoming slash.

Unable to react to the next one, he was kicked and slid across the ground into the wall, trying to get up but bled from his nose and ears.

After pulling himself up, using the blade of the sword as a cane to push himself up even quicker, he saw the vampire ready to unleash yet another shriek.