Brian Helsing: The World's Unlikeliest Vampire Hunter. Mission #2: Surf's Up by Gareth K Pengelly

Author:Gareth K Pengelly [Pengelly, Gareth K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-03T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve:

Better To Have Loved And Lost…

At the vampire’s words, Scylla turned to look at Brian, her eyes wide yet unreadable. Shit, thought Brian; that revealing hadn’t gone quite as he’d planned. Then again, how long did he think he could have kept up the charade? Surely she might have started to ask questions eventually, especially when the time came for him to start exploding her sisters with guided torpedoes and bisecting their bodies with his flaming sword?

“Yeah,” Brian started. “So about that…”

“You’re the new Helsing,” Scylla whispered. “And I just… made out with you!”

Cassandra laughed behind her, the sound cold, cruel, yet somehow incredibly sensual all the same, as was her wont.

“God, girl, you’ve no idea how many Helsings I’ve attempted to seduce over the centuries. Failed every time, not for want of trying. And you, my dear, did it completely by accident. I’m almost impressed. Anyway, if there’s no chance of any carnal pleasure on the horizon, then get out of my way; I’ve a score to settle with him. He ran me over. And I don’t take kindly to that kind of thing.”

She started forwards, making to walk past the still shell-shocked Nymph. But then suddenly, Scylla glanced up.

“No.”

Cassandra raised an eyebrow, as if amused.

“No? You do realise who I am, right?”

“How could I mistake that stench of evil?”

Cassandra chuckled.

“Evil? Your sisters feed upon the cattle with even more eagerness than I do.”

“Yes. But I’m different.”

“Different, and soon to be killed if you don’t fuck off right now. One of you dies, or both of you do, I care not which. Now move.” Scylla stayed firmly put. Cassandra shrugged. “So be it.”

To Brian’s eyes, even empowered as they were by the ring, the pair seemed to blur as the battle commenced. Scylla was a Water Nymph, her body adapted to moving beneath the crushing pressure of the ocean depths. She should have been faster. Should have been stronger. But she was very drunk and her lithe opponent was no ordinary vampire, but an old and immensely powerful Progenitor. For long seconds, the two fought, the air whip-cracking at the speed of their strikes, the very concrete slabs of the park splintering beneath their movements. But within moments, it was the inebriated Scylla who soared through the air, smashing into a metal bench and buckling it beneath the impact. As she lay there, dazed, whatever mental hold she had over her own shape seemed to falter then finally fail, revealing her true form.

Funny, thought Brian. Even in this form she still looked out of his league. Thankfully, her modesty had been preserved; her clothes were real, not another product of her shape-changing abilities.

The Nymph lay there, groaning, a thin trail of green blood now worming its way from a split lip the colour of kelp. Her black, almond-shaped eyes looked at him, imploring him to flee, to save himself and leave her to the wrath of the vampire. The look had the opposite effect, Brian reaching over his

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