"Hmmm?? there's another room in this shop? Why , I never realized that. Miss Smith, can this Madam wait for the mademoiselle in that room?" Mr.Jones happily played the role of middle man in the shop.
Just like how Mr.Jones said, they could hardly notice the existence of the room if not being pointed out by someone else. This is coming from the man who owned the tavern that was located at the upper level of this building.
How did this customer who just barged in, knew about the room, when she'd been in this shop for a mere two minutes?
"Forgive me madam. But the mademoiselle forbid for even me to go into her office. I'm afraid I cannot allow you to do that"
"Awhhh..come on Miss Smith. Have a pity on this Madam. I found her stranded on the street while finding her way to this shop. Why don't you let her have a rest in the room". Mr.Jones began to walk toward Charlotte and leaving the customer still standing in front of the closed door.
"Well, she could sit by fireplace if she wants."
"But then, where are you going to stand the entire time waiting for the mademoiselle?"
While both of them were arguing about the waiting area for the potential customer, Charlotte could see the woman slowly taking the huge hat off her head.
To her astonishment, Charlotte saw a familiar face as soon as the hat was taken off . The vampire! The 'customer' who had just came in was actually the wife who 'vanished' from her village a long time ago!
What is going on here?! What kind of ridiculous coincidence is this?! how did she came across her biggest childhood's nightmare after so many years and miles away?
It seemed that the vampire did a better job in hiding her vampire features this time. Charlotte almost could not discern her in the first place. If not for her familiar face, it would take her longer time to see past her camouflage. It appeared that she adapted to better camouflaging technique this time.
"Miss.Smith, what's wrong with you". Mr.Jones began to show his concern when he saw Charlotte's strange facial expression. While he was busy looking at her, the vampire began to bare her fang signaling that she was ready to attack both of them.
Charlotte froze in her place.
'What should I do? I don't know how to fight vampire! What about Mr.Jones? That poor man had no idea he was taking a vampire into this shop!'
Charlotte felt helpless thinking that both of them were defenseless against the vampire. Mr. Jones was much more pitiful as he had no idea that they were about to be attack by a vampire.
Charlotte was in dilemma on what to do. She can't fight but she could not let the vampire hurt Mr.Jones!
Suddenly, she saw the vampire disappear from the front door. No, she did not disappear! Vampire was fast! She was coming at them!
"Mr.Jones watch out!" Charlotte pushed the older man as hard as she could. While trying to move the old man away, her body was also propelled to the back. Mr Jones' body hit one of the many shelf in the shop and caused few of the antiques to fell off the shelf. The old man fainted on the floor when one of the glass antiques fell on his head.
Prang!!! the sound of valuables antiques hitting the floor, shattered whatever hopes Charlotte had to land on this job she was applying for.
'The Mademoiselle's gonna kill me!'
But! Before that, she had another urgent matter to attend to. I can weep later!
The female vampire reappear at the spot where Charlotte and Mr.Jones was standing just now. She had her fang elongated and claws all out ready to hurt both of them.
Charlotte's quick thinking saved both of them!
Without hesitation, Charlotte ran toward the direction of statues that was lining on the floor. Hiding behind of the biggest and sturdiest statue, she began to reach of anything that could be turn into a weapon.
She remember seeing one when she examining the shop just now!
Aha! Found it!
"Well, well,well. So you think you can hide from me, little girl?" the vampire then let out a maniac laughter.
"Do you think you can hide behind that statue?You stupid human being!"
The vampire charged at Charlotte and slashed the statue into two. As soon as the upper body of the statue fell on the ground, she aimed her right claw right at the girl's exposed neck.
Her attack however was immediately halted as Charlotte stabbed her palm by using a wooden stake that she picked among the antiques. While she managed to stop the attack, a stab on a palm did very little to finish off a vampire.
The vampire used her other hand and hit Charlotte's head till she fell on the ground. Once the girl hit the floor, the vampire pulled out the wooden stake from her right palm and threw it beside the girl who was now bleeding on the floor.
"Any last word?"
"Nope!" Another voice sneaking from behind surprised the vampire. Roux who had been watching the entire fiasco since the beginning immediately sprung into action. The mannequin went on aiming her powerful punch right at the vampire's head.
She was lucky that Charlotte had managed to distract the vampire's attention. It made her job easier than she had expected.
The distracted vampire did not predict that another 'person' was waiting to sneak an attack toward her. The impact from Roux powerful punch vaulted the vampire's body to the front part of the shop.
The vampire's body collided with another shelf before she hit the ground. This time, the impact was so strong, the entire shelf was rocked and fell on to of her.
"Come on! Get up blood sucker! Is that all you've got?" Roux began to taunt the vampire.
The vampire slowly rose from the ground the amistd of the broken shelf. This time, the vampire was no longer distracted and in the full offence mode. She launched herself toward Roux and clawed right at the mannequin left shoulder.
Once her claw reached Roux's shoulder, she gripped the part till it broke into pieces. Roux was taken aback to see someone successfully calculated her weak point this fast!
Being a mannequin, Roux was almost unbeatable as theoretically, she would not be hindered by sense of pain. No matter how much damaged she had taken, it did not matters as she could not feel anything. However, the downside of having a mannequin body was , her body easily break into pieces.
While she could still move with a broken arm and legs, however, the vampire had incapacitated her entire left arm as she broke the shoulder lock that enable her hand to move. Now she was left with only one hand and two feet to fight the vampire.
Roux immediately jumped backward to get away from the vampire before she did the same thing to her right shoulder. She cleverly switched to defense mood now that she was at disadvantage.
"Ouhhh…are you scared now silly doll? Is this really the so called killing machine that The Morpheus was proud to have?" it was the vampire's time to mock the crippled mannequin.
Ignoring the vampire's attempt to rile her up, Roux eyes locked with Charlotte that was struggling to get up from the ground.
"Say your last prayer doll, before I took out your head this time!" As soon as she uttered the words, the vampire went straight to Roux's neck to decapitate her. Roux managed to duck before swooping the vampire head by using her right hand.
Now, the vampire head was locked between the mannequin's inner elbow. She then shouted at Charlotte.
"Now!"
Without hesitation, Charlotte went on and stabbed Roux's chest from behind by using the stake. They were lucky that the stake was uniquely long. It went true Roux body and reached to the vampire's heart.
The vampire let out a intelligible guttural sounds. Using her leftover strength, Charlotte began to pushed both of them toward the front door that was still open.
Once they reached outside, flames appeared out of nowhere and engulfed the vampire's entire body. In a blink of an eye, the vampire turned into dust with only her charred remains left on the cobbled ground.
"Good job trainee!" Roux began to praised Charlotte. However, their celebration was cut short when a woman who had witness the entire pandemonium began to scream.
Roux and Charlotte lifted their heads and saw several passerby was looking at them with horror!
Only now did they realized that they had just exposed themselves to the public in the middle of the day!!