The Dragon Coin by Aiden James

Author:Aiden James [James, Aiden]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Historical, Genre Fiction, Literature & Fiction
Publisher: Aiden James Fiction
Published: 2013-06-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“Look out!”

Roderick called out as a vampire descended upon me. A strong sucker—literally—but unprepared for someone with my skill set. Skills I had spent centuries perfecting, and that at one time the CIA found indispensable. The face that greeted me belonged to a young man, not quite twenty when he was turned. The perfect age, according to Dracul’s standards, since subservience was made easier by youth. His eyes were as black as midnight, an initial result of the germ that causes all vampirism. Manifesting itself in a variety of ways, for this vampire the germ produced several fangs, as opposed to the standard two. The demon’s youthful bravado apparently was enhanced by his knowledge of the defect, and he smiled as if privy to my musings about him.

A very good development for me. Especially since my aforementioned skills were of the killing kind, and had become part of my instinctive repertoire centuries ago.

The vampire ripped through my shirt with his razor-sharp fingernails, and certainly intended to rip away my shoulder to get to my neck. But as he moved in to secure his powerful grip upon me, I slid away and climbed onto his back, using my long knife’s serrated edge to sever his throat from ear to ear. Blood erupted in all directions, and before the monster’s garbled screeches reached their crescendo, I plunged the knife’s edge through his back, slicing his heart in two.

He fell dead at Roderick’s feet.

Meanwhile, two more vampires had drifted down toward him, hovering less than a foot above his near seven-foot frame. Impossible to know why the pair of females waited, but in the faint light provided by the fallen penlight’s refraction off one of the dungeon walls, I noticed their attention was drawn more to me after their cohort perished at my hands. They foolishly underestimated Roderick’s prowess, perhaps thinking his fear of Dracul extended to all blood drinkers.

He gave me a slight nod, surely picking up my vantage perspective of where the pair hovered above him. He jumped up and pulled the one to his right to the floor, briefly exposing his carotid to bring the demon closer while he plunged his blade into her heart. Gambling this would inspire her companion to come to her rescue, I staked the other one with my knife before she could sink her fangs into Roderick from behind.

Three vampires dead in under two minutes.

But there were more. Many more. We knew this, and it surprised me they hadn’t launched themselves at us all en masse.

“You realize we can’t kill every one of them,” Roderick advised, breathing heavily while scooping up the penlight from the floor. He moved closer to me. We then circled each other defensively, while I worried about Alistair, Amy, and Beatrice. “Be thinking of a way to barter, and I’ll do the same.”

“What could Dracul possibly desire from us? And, what about his mercenaries? The shots earlier must’ve been a warning.” I looked anxiously toward the darkness behind us.

Someone should

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