Legendary Vampire in the Apocalypse

Dion’s eyes snapped open and his body jerked backward to the door.

For a disorienting moment the crimson of the soul sea bled into his waking vision, and in the dark of the small office with his legs still folded beneath him the whole building’s rumbling, the screams and the cascading bursts of glass shattering window after window tremored through his body.

The hammering of rain against the building’s face was so heavy and continuous that it sounded like the walls were being struck by machine gun bullets.

And then he heard the extreme howling of the wind, and the stiffness in his legs from sitting folded was swiftly expelled as he snapped to his feet.

"Motherfucker, I knew it! What the hell kind of rain even is this?!"

Dion raced across the room snatched the shotgun from where it lay beside his sleeping bag, the urgent slamming of people’s feet filling the whole area; he almost felt as if he had been squashed right in the middle of their desperately fleeing packs himself, even from the distance that he was at.

He swiftly hurried to the door ad yanked it open, already finding Madeline was already there.

She had come out of her room in a loose shirt and a pair of tracksuit bottoms, her hair pressed flat against one side of her head from sleep, and her eyes held wide.

Her expression had been wrenched tight with shock and fear, and immediately at the sight of him, she flinched at the sight of him and the shotgun in his hand.

’Thankfully, I made sure to force my eyes normal...’ He immediately sighed to himself internally once he had seen her.

"What’s..."

The desperate question had spilled free from her mouth once she realised that it was only him and he wasn’t a threat.

"It’s the rain, Madeline," he said, already moving past her, "come on!"

Even with the shock that had immediately possessed her, she fell into step and they ran down the corridor together.

The building groaned around them, the walls carrying the vibration of the wind, and the sound of the main floor grew with every stride.

The shouts and the rain layered into a wall of noise that pressed against Dion’s hearing until he had to force himself to try to filter through his somewhat sharpened senses to make some kind of sense of everything.

"You were right," Madeline said hurrying beside him, her breathing short from the sprint. "It... it actually rained. And Anton and the others... they’re still out there in it."

"I know," Dion muttered back with his brows furrowed deeply.

If he was being completely honest, there was not a part of him that had even thought about them in the moment.

And the biggest problem here was the part of the biggest reason that he had even left his room rather than waiting the storm out for a little, was something else.

His head filled with the rush of that woman’s scent, and his legs carried him, largely motivated to at least make sure that she and the boy were okay.

’Damn these fucking vampiric urges!’

The corridor opened onto the main floor and they immediately halted, looking at the serious damage spread before them.

Many of the tall window panels along the wall had shattered inward, and rain drove through the openings in angled sheets that drenched everything all the way at least halfway into the building.

A gust punched through one of the broken frames and staggered two people sideways before they caught themselves on each other, and someone’s blanket was snatched clean out of their hands and gone into the dark outside before they could grab it back.

Glass covered the floor in wide scatters, and people were scrambling away from the windows, dragging their bedding behind them, some of them barefoot through the shards.

A man near the east side had blood running from his heel and was limping toward the interior without stopping to look at it.

A younger girl was screaming near the stairwell, held against her mother’s chest, and two men were shouting over each other about which way to go.

The oddly sweet and metallic smell of the rain reached him from across the floor.

Basil was near the centre of it all with his hands raised, shouting for people to stay calm and move away from the windows.

His voice cracked on the word "calm," and the people closest to him could hear him but the ones further out could not.

Those people were pulling in different directions, bumping past each other in the dark, squashing and essentially fighting through them all.

And amidst all of it, Dion’s eyes had immediately fallen to the mother and child pair.

"Ca—Calm down, everyone!" Madeline tried to shout to help Basil, stepping ahead of him.

The woman was clutching onto the screaming boy as people shoved amongst each other, pushing them this and that way with reckless abandon.

Dion raised the shotgun and fired a shell into the ceiling.

The blast cracked through the floor so hard that chips of plaster rained from where the pellets hit, and everything stopped.

Even the younger girl buried her face into her mother’s neck and went quiet.

In the gap of silence that the shot had opened, there was only the hammering of rain against the building and the wind howling through the shattered glass.

Sixty faces turned toward him in the dark, some wet with tears, some of them bleeding and wincing through pain,, but all of them finally shut up.

Basil’s arms had dropped to his sides, and he was staring at Dion, his chest heaving.

"Listen to me," Dion finally spoke his voice nearly snarling through his chest. "Panicking will get people cut on that glass. We need to move everything away from the windows and get everyone deeper into the floor, away from the walls. If you can walk, help someone who can’t."

He looked at Basil. Basil held his gaze for a moment, then nodded once, and when he spoke again, finally, everyone listened.

Bedrolls and blankets were bundled and dragged toward the interior. Glass crunched beneath Dion’s shoes as he crossed the floor, hurrying to help as well.

"Here, you guys get back there quickly, I don’t like how this rain feels."

Dion had swiftly hurried up to the mother and son pair, the teenager that he had spoken to not too far away from them all

That sweetness in the rain felt like it was very quickly becoming more apparent, and without him even ingesting much at all, it was like it was coating the back of his throat.

Dion had been handing the woman the sheets that she and the boy had been using when suddenly the boy in her arms had shouted, tears spilling from his eyes.

"Bu—but, Einstein!"

He was thrashing around in the woman’s hands, her voice muttering constantly to try get him to settle.

In those brief moments, Dion had noticed that the boy had not been holding the teddy bear that he had been earlier.

Dion turned with him, both of them catching the bear at the same moment.

It was skidding fast, dragged flat along the glass-scattered floor as another gust tore through the broken windows.

The wind that had begun beating through the windows was now much worse than what had come before it, hard enough that a stack of crates near the wall toppled sideways and flew through the room, smashing against some fleeing people.

At the same time several people lost their footing and were tumbled down the floor, while some fell down hard on their knees.

The boy screamed for it again, "Einstein!" straining against the woman’s grip, but she only pulled him harder against her chest, refusing to let him anywhere near the window.

The bear kept moving, spinning as it went, and soon enough it would fly through the shattered window panels.

The teenager was closer than either of them.

He dropped the blankets he’d been carrying and ran, throwing himself after it.

His hand closed around the bear’s leg right as it reached the lip of the frame.

Then the wind caught him too, the same force that had already knocked grown men off their feet across the room, and this time there was nothing under him to brace against.

"He—" His desperate shout had been swallowed by the wind.

It threw his body forward and through the opening where the glass had been.

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