The Fastest Man Alive

Fast 86

By: BigToFu

 

 

 

Benjamin Blake

Vampire Hunter

It’s A TRAP, wait, he’s a trap?

Bite me Vladdy!!

My eyes, it burns!!!

 

 

 

Blade’s eye turned sharp, a hand already inside of his trench coat gripping the Sunshot. Frank though was a lot more nonchalant about the whole thing, but the dragoon shotgun he was carrying did suddenly appear in his hand along with the charge meter being active. Nyssa took a half step back the two vamps behind her stepping forward hands also on their weapons

 

“Everybody just calm the hell down,” I sighed, pinching the bridge of my nose. “It’s not that type of trap.”

 

“Then what is it,” Blade asked with that smooth grave base to his voice.

 

I jabbed a thumb in Nyssa direction, “The blood portal applies tracking to any who use it, and from what I can tell, even your little vampire princess isn’t exempt.”

 

Frank shifted his weight the dragoon shotgun vanishing, “Meaning?”

 

“Someone is playing games,” I replied with a smirk, then flicked my finger at the blood portal. There was a flash of electricity and then a crack sound before smoke wafted from above the massive portal. Ignoring that, I turned to the side and then snapped my fingers a shower of sparks flying outwards and rolling over Nyssa. The red and black aura that was covering her form cracking before dispelling with my actions.

 

Her hands went from the defensive posture she was holding and into a look of wonder as she checked herself over, “This is?”

 

“Dispelling the blood tracking you were under,” I replied with a shrug of the shoulders, “Not that hard of a thing.”

 

Frank snorted, then approached the portal bold, with no fear in his motions. Then again, what would he have to fear. With the amount of magics and technology that my people put into that damn Punisher armor of his. The guy could tank multiple full hits from the Hulk and keep on kicking.

 

Before I could say anything, Frank smirked and then stepped through the portal, vanishing from my senses.  Blade gave Nyssa a glance, then walked through the portal right after Frank. Rolling my eyes, I stood next to the portal and half turned to look at the vampire princess. I gave her a nod, then stepped through the portal myself.

 

Red washed over my form but lasted nothing as I stepped out the other side and straight into what had to be Castlevania, somewhere in Europe and from what I could tell from the worlds electro-magnetism around me, sigh. Of course, it was Transylvania, it was that old asshole Dracula running shit after all. What I also noticed was the shift to nighttime along with the potent blood magic in the air, funny enough, it also wasn’t the same signature that matched the blood portal, interesting.

 

I would of course need to keep a track of that because that was a clear clue someone was either playing games, taking advantage of the situation or maybe already had things set in motion. Either way, I was going to upset the hell out of this game-board.

 

Looking I found that we were in something close to a receiving center with tall vaunted ceilings along with at least three hanging chandeliers. The room was easily the size of a large warehouse with two other blood portals that were currently powered down. Yeah, I was not expecting any of this from the vampire nation, but it was par for the course. This was marvel after all and if vampires didn’t have their own type of magic, I was a smoked fished.

 

I took another half second to take in the vampires and noticed those that wee guards wearing a blood red shoulder pad. Everything was pretty old school and medieval or technically eighteenth century with all the puffy clothes and robes.

 

I was pretty sure that I wasn’t in Harry Potter because I checked for that Voldemort’s snake face in case I would have to kick his ass. It was Marvel and you never knew with these things especially since its canon that he was in the marvel universe with a few cameos in comics.

 

Sending a smirk at the room full of waiting vampires, I walked off to the side and ignored the bald muscled one flashing his fangs at me. Standing next to Blade, I folded my arms and closed my eyes, that changed the atmosphere in the room entirely. Me closing my eyes was a blatant show of disrespect that I gave no fucks about the danger levels that they were trying to impose upon us.

 

Frank shifted at my side and from my senses, I could tell he was eyeing up the bald pale skin asshole that was trying to intimidate us. I didn’t even open my eyes until Nyssa made her way through the portal and spoke to the other vamps within the room.

 

Ignoring them, I paid more attention to my tremor and gravitational senses, I would have been amazed by the castle if there weren’t feeding rooms with humans chained. I explored around some more with my senses poking at a few spots and peeking into a few rooms not finding what I was looking for. The room shifted and tension spike forcing me to pull back on my senses.

 

The bald one said something rude and Blade let out a chuckle from the right. Frank grunt and kept his peace and I said nothing but opened my eyes as Nyssa finally walked over. Shame, just a little more and I would have located Dracula’s vault of treasures, it sure wasn’t connected to his coffin room. The treasure vault would need to be located before I could do anything major because ‘one does not leave the loot behind.’

 

With a hum, I took up position at the back allowing Blade to lead with Frank taking up the middle. Next to Blade was Nyssa chatting him up while the pale bald asshole vamp from before was striding next to Frank. It was easy to tell that he was a relatively new vampire from the way he walked. Any true vampire that’s been around for any amount of time and worth their salt walked in a manner that made them appear to glide over the floor. Not this buffoon, his steps weren’t measured ad his obvious bloodlust meant he had no impulse control at all.

 

Big bald and stupid snorted before opening his big mouth, “I don’t see anything so special about them, just lambs for the feeding.” Big Bald and stupid sniffed the air and looked Frank over. “This one is human, I’m starting to think stories about you are just that, stories.”

 

The entire procession paused, and I could feel the tension rising, Frank was calm as a whistle. There was a swift and sudden hand movement before a throwing ninja star appeared between Franks fingers.

 

“Nova star, capable of burning up to 2.2 thousand degrees Celsius.” Frank stated then flicked the star from one hand to the other, the vampires in the hallway with us flinching at the action. Then Frank pointed at a little purple LED that was blinking on the throwing star. “This little light right here states it’s a self-contained type of burn, meaning it incase whatever its stabbed into within a protective barrier as its burnt to ash.”

 

Frank flicked his hand one more time, the throwing star flying outwards. The bald moron flinched then flitted across the ceiling and back out into the portal area. Frank snorted as the throwing star whizzed in a lazy circle allowing him to catch it with the other hand.

 

Chuckling, I turned to Frank ignoring the vamps around us, “I think you upset his stomach.”

 

Frank grunted, “Not my fault the lamb ruined his appetite.”

 

Blade chuckled, I could only shake my head at the bald fool, Blade and I both knew that Frank didn’t even activate the dame star. He basically just used it like a boomerang to make that asshole back off. Then again, it was either getting fucked with or getting dead and I was certain that everyone would gather get fucked with than get dead.

 

The sound of nails scraping against concrete had everyone turn to watch as the bald vamp finally came to realization of the situation. His hand was grabbing onto one of the stone column and it was easy to see where the sound was coming from. In his grip was the column crushed and turned to gravel because the fool couldn’t control himself.

 

“You fucking blood bag,” Tall Pale and Bald hissed, then came flying over angry and ready to attack. He didn’t make it very far as Nyssa made a hand signal and two vampires appeared beside the bald vampire and took him down hard.

 

“Take him away,” The one to Nyssa’s left snapped at the two vampires that took down the bald one and then we were back walking. Frank gave me a look and in return, I just shrugged at him. We would get there when we get there, also, I could just wreck house when this went sideways, but I wanted to at least enjoy this adventure first before I brought it all to a stop.

 

We strolled down another massive hallway that then turned onto a carpeted floor and into what could only be called a throne room. What I did find interesting though was that no one was sitting on the throne not even Dracula himself.

 

Off to the side was a group of people and I instantly located the elder vampire from the Blade 2 movie. Ignoring him even as we walked over, I located five other groups all standing around a elder vampire figures, interesting. Pushing them out of mind after cataloging faces, I spread my senses and picked up three other powerful presence within the area, one vastly stronger than all the rest. Yeah, that was Dracula.

 

The second strongest was the signature that I found on the blood portal and I could also feel the same signature on the majority of the vampires of the room. Noting even showing that I was aware of the shit being planning, I just dropped a teleport tag so I could get back in time to watch the show.

 

This would only be the second teleport tag since I also gave my people the one for the portal room along with the other hidden portal room below that was used for someone’s escape. I stood just outside the group and started to make a mental tally of all the vampires that carried the second signature along with those that had Dracula’s on them.

 

Keeping my peace, I followed along even though I shared a look with Frank and had to wave the man off as he did a little twirl with his finger. With Frank placated, I entered into what was clearly a separated waiting room with the rest of the vampires and my time.

 

The elder vampire whose name I just could place, put his hand on a raised section of table and then started to speak, his assistant providing the information. The far wall behind the vampire elder flashed to life as documents popped up on the screen. One section was what looked like cells attacking other cells and on the other side was a picture of the vampire who was behind all of this.

 

The name read Jared Nomak and he looked just as disgusting as I remembered him from the movie. Very sickly yellowish pale skin, blue veins across a bald head, weird ears and a very hungry look on his face.

 

“This is Jared, and his form of the vampire strain has gone rabid.”

 

Huh, so that was what they planned to lead with, alright, I’ll just play stupid until Blade dicks down Nyssa again. Things progressed from there and hit some of the beats from the Blade two movie while dodging a few and hitting others.

 

What did attract my attention though was the fact that they had a team prepared to help Blade in his task of destroying this rabid vampire since he was feeding on not only vampires but also humans. Ohh that could be fun, I wonder who would be the first to die when they turned on us.

 

Damaskinos, damn, that was his fucking name, I remembered at the last moment as he handed over a flash drive to Nyssa. The flash drive also came with a command to his daughter to see us out and to the team that he had waiting for us.

 

There was a ping from my personal omni as Frank sent a message through our private communications, “Were we just used as a fetch team?”

 

“Chuckling, I replied with the forcefield covering up my words. “Ohh yeah, but I think we might want to wrap this up in time for the drama.”

 

Frank turned a little to look at me, even Blade paused half a step since he was also included into the communications, “Are you talking about the betrayal they have planned?”

I shrugged, “Mehh, that’s only half of it, the other is that someone is about to pull a powerplay and I want to watch the fireworks.”

 

“Are you sure,” Blade asks now interjecting himself.

 

“Very,” I quipped back.

 

“Why so nosy, don’t you have an Empire to run after this?” Frank asked holding the door open with a slight grunt.

 

I snorted at that because he wasn’t wrong, “It’s because I run an Empire that I’m so nosy, if I can have Nyssa sniff out the good vamps from the bad ones, I can migrate them and have a twenty-four-hour work force. Normal people during the day, vampires at night. Blood donation centers along with creating a proper plasma drink that they could consume would also alleviate a lot of the stigma, but I can’t do any of that without actual vampires.” I stated as fact, then a waved a hand, “Only a fool would let a revolution like this slip through his fingers, and momma didn’t raise no fool.”

 

From his location Blade gave me a short nod of the head, “Not a bad idea, but I doubt they will go for that. Its just not in their nature to give up the hunt.”

Frank had a thinking look on his face.

 

I shrugged, “They won’t have a choice with the way things are heading. As the world advance, it gets smaller for those that go bump in the dark. At least this way they have a chance at actual life instead of this hiding bullshit. Plus, any consenting adult could sign up for a hunt if they know they won’t be sucked dry.”

 

Franks head snapped towards me, and I shrugged at him, “Consenting adults can do whatever the fuck they want Frank.”

 

Frank then twisted his head, his neck cracked for all to hear before speaking, “Not disagreeing with you boss.” Frank then grunted, “So how do you plan to pitch the idea.”

 

“My charming wit and personality, or maybe the big fist, then again, I could also just wait until Blade gives Nyssa the D.”

 

From where I was, I could see Blades foot make that half second stutter and he had to shift his body weight to keep from tripping. I sent the man a sly smirk and wiggled my brow when he looked at me. Nyssa was right there at his side, that wide smile of hers on display. I was about to say something but we had arrived at our destination.

 

The room turned out to be a large gymnasium, all around there was mats and different training dummies along different locations. All round the gym weapons were placed on the walls and I felt sorry for them because once I started to loot the place, Nat was going to stake her claim on the place.

 

Being respectful we took our shoes off and placed them at the side before walking into the gym, even Frank didn’t escape from this, but that could just be because he was able to bring his shotgun. We strolled across the padded mats, pass the weapons and training dummies and to the group of vampires just hanging out on the bleachers and I felt like high school all over again now. They all turned around in sync and I felt as if I was being started at by a pack of jackals an no it wasn’t because they were vampires. Bullshit high school comparisons to fucking life, sigh.

 

That big bastard Reinhardt stood out instantly, Snowman was next because he reminded me so much of Donnie Yen. From there was Chupa, Priest and Varlanie, surprised me since I didn’t think that I would remember them all.

 

“Well, well, well, lookie what we have here.” Reinhardt stated as he turned around and started to walk closer, Chupa right on his heel. 

 

Frank cracked a smile and I already knew that shit was about to hit the fan in the worst way possible, but even he wasn’t fast enough as Blade was already half way there to meet Reinhardt the Ron Perlman wannabe. Stepping to the side and chilling by Nyssa advisor Asad, I gave a nod towards Snowman since he looked in my direction instead of turning to watch Blade and Reinhardt. Seems he had good senses, to bad he looked like a rip off of one my favorite martial artist out of China.

 

“A stare like that just gives me the tingles,” Blade mocked a shiver as he stood before the glaring pair.

 

“Looks like he might want to tango,” Frank grunted from where he was standing, a knife flickering between his fingers as he played with it and eyeing up the vampires.

 

Chupa flashed his fangs with a hiss at Frank, but he was stopped from walking forward when the Ron Perlman fake put a handout to stop him.

 

“Ohh, he wants to tango, but I doubt its of the two step variety,” Blade spoke a hand going to his inside holster. “He’s been eyeing this the entire time; he just might be froggy.”

 

Out of Blades inner coat pocket appeared the eight-inch silver stake that Blade like to use to stab vampires with. He flicked it around for a bit, Reinhardt’s head shifting slightly to track the hand movements.

 

SMACK!

 

Reinhardt’s head moved to the side as Blades left hand went right across his face, all the vampires in the room blinked and then moved into motion before controlling themselves and stopped. Blades hand flicked around once more the silver flashing for all to see.

 

SMACK!

SMACK!

 

“Do it Reinhardt, do it.” Chupa snarled taking a step forward but found himself blocked by Frank, who I noticed was holding a massive behind his back. Most of the weapon was still in the holster, but I could see the wicked silver lining its edge. The other vamps in the room didn’t notice but Asad did send me a look along with Nyssa because they knew exactly where this was about to go.

 

It was clear that Blade was going to be in charge even if I was the actual big gun during this mission. That means everyone here was going to have to follow his lead because he had the experience and name that they were looking for. Sooner or later, Blade would have to show his dominance and ability to lead this team and that fool Reinhardt basically provided himself to be used as a gimp in front of everyone.

 

SMACK!

SMACK!

RAAGGHH!!

 

Reinhardt launched himself forward in a roar of frustration, but all he got for his effort was a bad ass billowing black leather trench coat for his troubles. Blade pulled a classic obscure vision along with redirecting the line of sight. Reinhardt bought it hook line and sinker before getting judo tossed like a ragdoll by Blade.

 

Two flashes of silver followed Reinhardt and when everyone turned to take a look. They found him stuck against the near wall with two silver stakes pinning Reinhardt along with clothing to the wall. With a chuckle, I pulled a ten from my wallet for all to see, walked over to Frank and slapped it down into his palm.

 

“Ohh, that’s nice,” Frank commented, then in sync we both turned around and ignored Chupa the prissy little chihuahua. He got to do nothing since he got hit with a minor repulson field. He stumbled and looked around to check who pushed him on balance, but he would find no one around him.

 

Yeah, no need to give the game away so early and have them discover the ten-ton shark in their midst. I would call myself the eight-hundred-pound gorilla in the room, but these vamps would see that has a happy meal. Nyssa walked in front of the other vampires that were now standing from the bleachers and had that wolve pack look in their eyes.

 

Nyssa turned and gave Blade that serious smile of hers, “Since they are all aware of who you are, I’ll place names with faces.” She stated then went to introduce the team. “Chupa, Priest, Snowman, Lighthammer and Valaine, the one you met was of course Reinhardt. All elite level vampires with more than a hundred years underneath their belts.”

 

As she stated names, Nyssa stopped by each person as they did a little flex with their weapons. It was clear that they had a lot of pride, but I found it strange I didn’t see anyone with even a hint of blood magic. Also, only two of them were carrying the magical signature of the person messing with the blood portals. Got to keep an eye on that incase things change from what I know, that was par for the course though since this was marvel.

 

Nyssa then made a hand motion towards them, “This is the BLOODPACK, and they will be assisting us on this mission.”

 

Author's Note :

Sorry, I know it took some time but things are very active on my end. I generally don't go into things, but a lot of stuff is happening at work paired with a lot of life stuff.

 

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