Family The Girl in the Box by Robert J. Crane

Author:Robert J. Crane
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

With the shock of the knowledge, I felt adrenaline course into my veins. I lifted, pulling the vampire to its feet as it jerked in my grasp and tried to sink teeth into my forearm. With a quick turn I threw it, my metahuman strength allowing me to heave him about twenty feet. I watched him twist in the air, his black clothing rippling in the night like a cloud of darkness blotting out the stars. He landed on his feet and was balanced and in motion again a second later, running back toward me, fangs bared and mouth dripping with my blood.

I froze for only a second as someone fired off a burst at him, the flame from the gun barrel lipping, shattering the night with the noise of the shots and destroying my night vision with the barrel flash. It fired again, and I realized it was Jackson, surprisingly calm considering that the vampire was still moving toward us, unerring. The bullets did nothing.

Fire.

The word echoed in my head, another scream of warning from Wolfe and Gavrikov, both of them pressing against the wall between me and them. I regretted for the first time that I had worked so hard to insulate myself from two metas who had centuries and millennia of experience dealing with metahumans, fighting in the very types of conflicts I myself was in on a daily basis. There was nothing I could do about it now but act on the message they worked so hard to get to me.

I swept my head around, looking back to the wreckage of the other helo, to where a few little flames remained in the dry grass. I reached back to where Reed was standing behind me and grabbed his sleeve as he was firing off a tornado-like wind that caught the vampire coming at us and threw him into the air. “Hey!” Reed shouted as I jerked the sleeve of his shredded and mangled suit coat and pulled it loose from him in one good tug, spinning him around like he was caught in his own wind. As he came around I jerked again and freed him from the other sleeve, catching a flash of his irritation as I ran past him toward the wreckage, already balling up the jacket.

I stooped to grab a long, slender piece of metal wreckage about two feet long; it looked like a strut. As I ran I wrapped Reed’s coat around it and dipped it into the fire that still burned near the crash, felt the heat and smelled the smoke. The flames took hold and I pulled it out. I held it aloft, my torch, my weapon, and spun back to where the battle was taking place, bullets being sprayed indiscriminately and the vampires having struck down at least two of our people. I could see Reed keeping one of them off of him with some difficulty while Parks had turned into a bear and was battering the other

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