Alice hurriedly chased after him with the worst in her mind, arriving at her parents' ward, she slammed the door open, and upon entering the room she saw eight people, her two comatose parents, one doctor, four nurses, and the man in red.
Alice threw herself in front of the man with her arm stretched out as if she was protecting the people behind her, "This man is an impostor! Hurry and contact the Authority!" she called out to the hospital staff behind her.
"Oh-ho, what an interesting development this turned out to be," he chuckled, amused. "I won't let you go any further!" Alice exclaimed, 'if only I had my sword,' she thought as she faced the man.
"Fine then, since you're here," he said as he reached inside his coat, the man pulled out a modified silver Smith & Wesson model 41 with a 5.5in barrel, Click! he then pointed the gun at Alice.
Alice gazed into the muzzle of his gun, "you might as well enjoy the show," consumed by fear she trembled, as her heart beats spiked, her breathing got heavier, drenched in sweat as she realized death was nothing but a finger pull away.
He gently applied pressure to the trigger, "I warn you kid," the man said, Alice instinctively shuts her eyes, BANG! Thud! A loud gunshot resounded through the room and echoed out the corridor.
As Alice opened her eyes she realized the bullet grazed past her and hit the doctor behind her who was now bleeding out on the ground.
Blood violently poured out from the doctor's chest as the puddle of blood dyed the shoes Alice was wearing. The man then repositioned his gun.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! Once again loud gunshots resounded through the room, Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! The four nurses collapsed alongside the doctor, contributing to the pool of blood.
Alice looked at the man in fear, she couldn't move, or rather she didn't dare to move as his eyes glowed red, he suddenly tackled Alice and tossed her over his shoulder.
Thud! Crack! Dust kicked up as the man spun through the room, landing next to the two patients' beds he threw Alice beside her parents.
He then pulled out a knife and slash at the already, strangely scratched-up floor. The scratching began to glow in a circle around the two patients' beds after he added the finishing touch. The scratchings on the floor were sigils, symbols for magic allowing one to cast certain spells.
A spherical barrier formed around the four. Sheathing the knife he said; "Didn't I tell you? I'm not responsible for whatever happens next," he said smiling.
As the dust settled a tentacle emerged, the tentacle impaled the floor leaving a small crater around it. "What's that," Alice asked, surprised by its strange appearance the tentacle squirmed around, pulling itself out of the ground, and lashed out after the man.
The man remained unfazed as the tentacle collided with the barrier, the man had a wide smile, "stay inside the sigil kid," he said as he loaded a new magazine into his gun.
"And enjoy the show," with that he then proceeded to rush out of the barrier, BANG! BANG! BANG! He fired three shots into the tentacle. Piercing it, the tentacle squirmed around in pain as blue fluid leaked out of its wound.
The tentacle retreated into the doctor's body, "hurry up and get up," the man called out, "I'll give you the chance to try to satisfy me."
The corpses all got up in an eerie manner and gripped their faces and pulled off their own fleshed, red blood splattered and drizzled down as they revealed their true form.
A humanoid figure whose entire body was wrapped with slimy tentacles with webbed hands and feet and a pulpy octopus head with even more tentacles on their faces, they were monsters known as Octopedians.
"You bastard! You ruined our plans!" the Octopedian "doctor" said enraged as its underlings hissed at the man, "so what? I'm just doing my job and besides," he said as he pointed his finger at the doctor.
"Since you're their leader I'll kill you last," the man smiled ecstatically with a crazed look in his eyes. "You think you'll get away with this!? Get him!" The Octopedian leader ordered. The four underlings then proceeded to pounce after him.
"Enough with the cliche lines," the man said as a swarm of tentacles blasted at him. In which he avoided it by leaping over it, while hanging in midair he pointed his gun at the Octopedian that launched his tentacles.
BANG! He fired a shot into the Octopedian's head. As he descended he disrespectfully stepped on the corpse of the Octopedian, soaking his shoes in blue fluid, "I'll turn you all into Sashimi," he said menacingly baring his teeth.
Two Octopedian flanked his left and right, he turned to one of them, BANG! And fired a bullet into its head.
Meanwhile, the other Octopedian who got close to him attempted to bind him, only to be greeted by an elbow to the face that sent it crashing into a wall, CRASH! Click! BANG!
"That's three down," the man announced.
The Octopedian leader's eyes widened in shock as three of its underlings were taken down. In an instance, the man looked at the Octopedian smiling widely, "calm down," the man said as his eyes flashed red, he stretched his left arm above his head and did a grabbing motion, "didn't I tell you?" he suddenly spun his body as he slammed something into the wall.
A humanoid figure took shape in the wall. As the camouflage came undone it revealed the fourth Octopedian. "I'll kill you last."
The Octopedian flayed around trying to escape as the man maintained a firm grip on its slippery head, "Hey! You bastard! What are you?! The Octopedian leader called out only to be ignored. The man felt around the captured Octopedian head, he smiled as he announced, "Found it."
Opening his mouth he dived straight between the eyes and sank his teeth into it, biting into the brain. The Octopedian let out an intense screech as blue fluid sprayed out between its eyes. The man swallowed the piece he ripped out, "taste like shit," he commented as he then dropped the Octopedian that was squirming around in pain as it continued to bleed out into the ground.
"Damn you, you crazy bastard, Fine, let's end this," the last Octopedian said, pissed as three tentacles shot out from its body and hurled toward him. The man dodged each one with ease while maintaining the same smile.
"Come on try harder," he taunted "YOU BASTARD!" More tentacles emerged as he whipped them around like a fierce storm that ravaged everything in its path.
The exchange went around for a while almost the entire ward was reduced to nothing except for the area near the beds' thanks to the barrier. The insanity continued until; "how's that!" The Octopedian exclaimed as a tentacle landed.
Successfully leaving a small cut under his eye and knocking off his hat. As soon as his hat hit the ground, so did all of the Octopedian tentacles. They all suddenly went limp as if they had lost their strengths.
"Th-that presence, you're a Blood Hunter," the Octopedian stammered as its knees gave out, realizing the man's identity. No longer maintaining a smile he said; "How unfortunate, I was hoping to continue since it's no fun when the prey doesn't retaliate in some way," he walked up to the Octopedian, the wound under his eye had already healed leaving no scar.
Arriving in front of the fallen Octopedian it said; "I thought your kind-" "Went extinct?" The man finished, "Too bad, fortunately for you, I'm the last of my kind. So I'll give you a chance, get up."
"Please," the Octopedian pleaded.
"Get up." the man ordered.
"Please, spare me," the Octopedian begged.
"How pathetic, now that you've lost the will to fight you're begging me," he scoffed. "Final chance. Get up," he threatened coldly.
"Please," the Octopedian whimpered.
"Then," Click! He pointed his silver gun down at the Octopedian and said disappointingly:
"Die."
BANG!